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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: Vadim Cherny <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] consonant vowel order of )EHYEH & YAHWEH
  • Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:18:04 +0500

On 04/10/2005 02:25, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> Oh come on Vadim! This example only shows the difference between an unaccented
*written* o in Russian.
The example shows that unaccented long a can be pronounced as short o.


No, Vadim, vice versa in your Russian example. In Russian the phoneme "o" when it becomes unaccented is pronounced as a short "a" sound, or in fact more like English short "u", but in any case indistinguishable from unaccented "a". So, if Russian did have any relevance here, it would not support your theory. But then I don't accept that it has any relevance, for the overall phonological systems of Russian and Hebrew are extremely different.

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