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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 20: 1
  • Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:28:23 -0400

Yitzhak,

Really, do you take this proto-prattle about the "seven of the Proto- Semitic fricatives" seriously?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

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For
the purposes of this list, it would suffice if you would show where
Richard Steiner, a very important scholar in the field of Semitic
phonology and author of "Ancient Hebrew" , in Robert Hetzron's
"The Semitic Languages," errs when he writes:
"Seven of the Proto-Semitic fricatives were lost by merger at various
times: the interdentals ... t_' (>s'), ... the laterals l~' (> s') ..." (p. 147)
In the above quote, s' represents an emphatic s (S with a dot or an
apostrophe), whereas t_' represents an emphatic th (T with an underline
and a dot underneath), and l~' represents an emphatic lateral (L with a
squiggly line in the middle and a dot underneath). Please provide
references in academic literature to substantiate your point about this
grave error.

Yitzhak Sapir
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