Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 19/01/2004 00:19, Rasmus Underbjerg Pinnerup wrote:

> Dear Trevor and list-members
>
> At 03:15 19-01-2004, you wrote:
>
> > You're right, there is. I'm not sure what to do about it. My inclination
> > is to mark consonantal lengthening by some means other than writing the
> > consonant doubled, but I'm not sure what it would be.
>
>
> Why not simply mark the mobile shewas with a superscript like the 
> matres, giving them the same air of "letters that are written but may 
> not have been pronounced"?
Good idea. I would suggest a superscript schwa, U+1D4A. That is at least 
someone's standard.

> > Could you explain this a bit more? As I say, I got ae from
> > Saenz-Badillos. The IPA epsilon is another option--my choice of ae was
> > mostly for mechanical reasons, since it's an easy symbol to use in
> > LaTeX.
>
>
> The letter "æ" in Danish and Norwegian regularly stands for the open e 
> sound of IPA epsilon and therefore is also used in our Hebrew 
> translitteration to translitterate the sægol, compared to "e" for 
> tsere. Thus "road" is »dærækh« and "book" is »sephær«.
But IPA æ is a rather different sound, in English more like a in "man" 
than e in "men". But the distinction in English depends on dialect.



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