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  • From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: George Athas <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: ayin
  • Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 07:58:28 -0500


{george athas wrote}
>I always encourage people to pronounce their ayins as it was in antiquity.


i applaud. music to my ears.

voiced pharyngeal fricatives.

and let your Het's be voiceless pharyngeal fricatives
and not velar xaf's, -- Has veHalila!

these are usually distinguished in "mizraHi" israeli music for those so
inclined.

braxot,
randall buth



  • ayin, yochanan bitan, 12/30/1998
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: ayin, Peter_Kirk, 12/31/1998

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