Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

You say: "Biblical Hebrew may have had the spoken structure of CVCVCV  
where each
consonant was followed by a vowel". The designation of V for a vowel  
is appropriate in the Indo-European languages where a vowel is a mere  
sound. It is patently misleading in Hebrew. You my liberally add the  
A sound to a Hebrew word, but not the U and I sounds since they stand  
for personal pronouns. You need also to make a distinction in this  
respect between nouns and verbs.

One must beware of applying the crude terminology of Indo-European  
linguistics (actually Englishtics) to Hebrew.