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Re: ayin-ghayin

From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:Peter_Kirk AT sil.org" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: ayin-ghayin
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:26:00 -0500

very ancient ayin -ghaiyn, pre-davidic
yes

very ancient Het- xet
yes

some dialects continued it throughout first millenium BCE
probably,
see yehoshua blau, little monograph on this

modern
no

randall buth

Re: ayin-ghayin, yochanan bitan, 12/31/1998