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  • From: George Athas <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
  • To: "yahua'sef" <gs02wmr AT panther.Gsu.EDU>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Phoenetically similar?
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 09:26:14 +1000


yahua'sef wrote:

> [...]
> Are the "r" and "l" interchangable, such as in the case in some Oriental
> Languages, for instance Nihongo (Japanese)?

Definitely. One example is "Pereshet" in Egyptian but "Pileshet" in Hebrew.

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  • Phoenetically similar?, yahua'sef, 05/11/1999
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