Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

b-hebrew - Re: [b-hebrew] Re: variant pronunciation

b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Biblical Hebrew Forum

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Joel Nothman <jnothman AT student.usyd.edu.au>
  • Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: variant pronunciation
  • Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:31:55 -0700

On 17/04/2004 03:42, Joel Nothman wrote:



...
Also of note here is that a number of these communities also pronounce vet (bet without dagesh) as b. It was once likely a bilabial fricative, which is not so easy to pronounce and so seems to fall out of languages - it sounds somewhere between v and b. This sound also accounts (in Latin Spanish) for the spellings of Habana/Havana. It may also account for "Jacob" and "Job" and not "Jakov" and "Jov".


This last is more likely because Greek and Latin did not have a V sound and so used beta or B for the V sound when these names were transliterated from Hebrew.



--
Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page