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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:38:16 +0300

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Yaakov Stein wrote:

> What was never clear to me was WHY the dagesh changes some of the
> BGDKPT letters in the way is does.

This process is called spirantization. Hurrian is not very well known, but it
didn't have spirantization. If I remember correctly from my articles at home,
it had devoicing in intervocalic environments, not spirantization.

Yitzhak Sapir




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