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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: "b-hebrew Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] yamim or yamin? -- "Adamim" vs. "Adamin-the-Negev"
  • Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:05:04 +0000

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jim Stinehart wrote:
>
> Yitzhak Sapir:
>
> You wrote: "[T]he pervasive use of final nun for mem probably relates to
> nasalization as a dialect feature that can be traced back to the earliest
> stages
> in the development of Hebrew."
>
>
> 1. Thank you for that valuable information. That neatly explains the
> different endings on the three suggested transliterations for item #36 of
> pharaoh
> Thutmosis III's mid-15th century BCE list of cities in Canaan:

Dear Jim,

Let me then also point out the following:
1) I don't believe "nasalization" or any sound change is the root. I
believe it is strictly
Aramaic influence.
2) I think it does not predate the Assyrian occupation of the area,
after which Aramaic
became a dominant language of communication. In fact, I think Aramaic
influence is
visible already in the 6th century BCE inscriptions and underlies
Biblical Hebrew in its
entirety.

Yitzhak Sapir



  • Re: [b-hebrew] yamim or yamin? -- "Adamim" vs. "Adamin-the-Negev", Yitzhak Sapir, 07/11/2008

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