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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
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- Re: ayin, Peter_Kirk, 12/31/1998