Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 11/10/2005 21:35, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> > To try to test my theory that Hebrew originally had only a
> >    
> CV structure, and those at the end of words were usually
> unstressed
>
> That is kind of obvious. Does anyone really disputes the CV structure in 
> proto-Semitic?
>  
Vadim, I won't dispute this. You seem to know more about proto-Semitic 
than I do. But the Bible was not written in proto-Semitic, but in 
Hebrew, a language which does not have a strict CV structure, but allows 
consonant clusters and word final consonants.

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