Biblical Hebrew Forum

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For the record, I personally am able to smoothly utter the final glottal 
stop. 
I believe that it was pronounced in ancient times. To one that pronounces a 
pnonetic value from infancy, it is often easy to pronounce that very sound. 
Chinese people easily find letters not in most other languages, yet stumble 
over sounds I find easiest in English and continental European languages.

Shalom,
Travis Jackson


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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:17:56 +0200
> From: "Dr Raoul Comninos" <capechurch AT gmail.com>
> Subject: [b-hebrew] final alef
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> How would one properly pronounce the following two words:
> 
> X"+:) sin
> 
> GAY:) valley
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> Am I correct in taking these to be monosyllabic with silent shewa in
> both cases. If so, Alef would be purely orthographical in both
> instances?
> 
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:24:36 +0000
> From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] final alef
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> On 8/17/07, Dr Raoul Comninos wrote:
> > How would one properly pronounce the following two words:
> >
> > X"+:) sin
> >
> > GAY:) valley
> >
> > Am I correct in taking these to be monosyllabic with silent shewa in
> > both cases. If so, Alef would be purely orthographical in both
> > instances?
> 
> Yes.  The alef in this case was possibly/probably not orthographical in
> earlier pronunciation  traditions of Hebrew, but in the Tiberian Hebrew
> represented by the vowels, it was.  The situation is similar to the -h
> ending in singular feminine nouns.
> 
> Yitzhak Sapir
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