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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] comparative historical linguistics was Re: Nun-Tav-Vet root
  • Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:51:44 -0500

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.




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