Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 04:32 PM 2/9/2005, you wrote:
> On 09/02/2005 09:12, Vadim Cherny wrote:
> > Modern spoken Hebrew completely lost schwa and dagesh, certainly dagesh 
> > kal, ...
> Not true. It still has dagesh kal distinction in bet, in pe and in kaf, 
> i.e. quite different sounds corresponding to presence or absence of dagesh kal.

Quite true. I used to teach little kids to read Hebrew, and believe me shva 
was there. (There are two types shva nah, and shva nach) Also the dagesh 
was very important for pronunciation.  No Jew could say his daily prayers 
correctly without knowing how to properly pronounce words with a shva, or a 
dagesh.


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