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  • From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: PS /g/
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:29:17 +0200


----- Original Message -----
From: <MarianneLuban AT aol.com>
> In the orthography, samekh was written very many times with Egyptian /T/,
a
> grapheme of unknown value, which later became interchangeable with
Egyptian /t/
> and lost its original sound. I can't swear to the accuracy of this, but
it
> may be that /T/ once had the value of the Castilian vocalization of the c
in
> Barcelona as "Barthelona". Not quite the same as the English dipthong
"th"--but
> something near.

Makes sense. /s/, /t/ and /th/ are very close.

Yigal






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