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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: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:32:44 +0100

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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Peter Kirk
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