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  • From: Pere Casanellas <pere.casanellas AT btlink.net>
  • To: "Matthew R. Miller" <biblicalscribe AT hotmail.com>, Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: A Thankful Ayin
  • Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 10:11:54 +0100


At 11:28 28/11/2002 -0500, Matthew R. Miller wrote:
Thanks to all for the wonderful suggestions on pronouncing the ayin. So, I
have summarized below my understanding of aleph and ayin, and would
appreciate any corrections from people who know better than I. Thanks!

1. Aleph: When non-quiescent, it acts as a glottal stop, from which a
vowel is produced, thus acting as a silent, glottal consonant. When
quiescent, it merely lengthens a vowel, much like the German "h" in gehen.
No?

2. Ayin: Never quiescent, nor so much a glottal stop, but a fricative,
glottal, voiced consonant.

The ayin is pharingeal, not glottal. ("Approximant" better than "fricative".)

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Pere Casanellas
E-mail: pere.casanellas AT btlink.net
pcasanel AT pie.xtec.es
Barcelona
CATALONIA (Spain)




  • A Thankful Ayin, Matthew R. Miller, 11/28/2002
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: A Thankful Ayin, Pere Casanellas, 11/29/2002

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