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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Cc: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] vowel length
  • Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:54:21 +0200

On 11/6/06, Uri Hurwitz wrote:
The entire coprus of medieval Heb poetry's meter, mainly in Spain,
but some in Italy and elswehere is based on the diffeerence between
long and short vowels, where the chatafim are considered half vowles.

Dear Uri Hurwitz,

Do you mean that hatafim are short vowels equivalent to regular short
vowels or that hatafim are a third vowel length degree, in a scale that
may be called "long", "short", and "shorter"? Could you provide an
example of this in some actual poem?

Yitzhak Sapir




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