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  • From: "B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ayin and Ghayin
  • Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:08:53 -0400


Hi Karl,

From your wordy post to Yitzak, it seems that you do not understand that one of the few ways we *attempt* to reconstruct ancient pronunciations of one language is by examining transcriptions of that language into a contemporary language.

May I suggest some basic reading in case you haven't already had a chance: Saenz-Badillow, Angel. _A History of the Hebrew Language_, Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1993.

One other thing: In your post you demand "documentation" from before the 6th century BC that shin/sin could be differentiated. Are you serious? You can't mean that you want some ancient philologist to have written a certificate of such information. You must mean "evidence" or "testimony"...except that Yitzak presented you with just such evidence, and you do not receive it.

I concur with Kirk's motion to end the thread.

Shalom,
Bryan

Karl Randolph wrote:
Yitzhak:

I have already answered the problem with the execration texts, I will go into more detail here.

<snipped>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>

...
I had brought evidence from the Execration Texts regarding the sh/th difference:
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2005-September/026221.html

As for Shin/Sin, Daniel Sivan's and Ziporah Cochavi-Rainey's "West Semitic
Vocabulary in Egyptian Script of the 14th to the 10th centuries BCE" notes:
Semitic & is represented in Egyptian by signs with s' and s, eg:
(a-s'-bu in GN [39, cf Heb (es'eb, Arabic (u$bu].
s'a'-(a'-ru' "hair" [187, cf Heb &e(ar, Arabic $a(r, $a(ar]
For further information and Bibliography see Sivan "Grammatical Analysis and
Glossary of the Northwest Semitic Vocables in Akkadian Texts of the 15th-13th
centuries BC from Canaan and Syria", AOAT 214.

Semitic $ is expressed by Egyptian with $, eg.
ma-$:-)ab "scoop" (117) from *$)B
Ma-$a-)-la GN (Thut III, 39) Heb Mi$)al < Canaanite *Ma$)al
(a'-$a-q "to oppress" (40), Heb (a$aq, Arabic (a$aqa.

Does this suffice?

Yitzhak Sapir




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