Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Please don't tell me were going to start applying circular logic again.

We know Hebrew had three vowels because Akkadian had three vowels, we know
this because Ugaritic did, we know this because Hebrew did... ad infinitum.

Excuse! Baking powder! Any unambiguous transliterations please?

Long silence. Waffle about comparative linguistics from people who evidently
still haven't understood the implications of their claims. At the end of it
all. Still no evidence! Still no transliterations!

James Christian

P.S. And yes! I already know in advance. The best I'm likely to see is more
literature suggestions which themselves still contain no evidence.

2010/1/23 Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:30 PM, James Christian wrote:
> > P.S.
> >
> > You have no evidence for the Ugarits to have a perception of three
> different
> > vowels at a level strong enough to make different symbols for. You only
> have
> > evidence to show they had perception of three different aleph starting
> > syllables. If they perceived the three different vowels at a high enough
> > level then they would have made three vowel symbols and not three
> syllable
> > symbols. The sooner you acknowledge this the sooner we can start having a
> > serious linguistic discussion.
>
> James,
>
> Unless you've studied Ugaritic, I don't think you're going to be a good
> judge
> of exactly what evidence we have for Ugaritic.  It just so happens that
> the people of Ugarit wrote not only alphabetic cuneiform inscriptions
> but also in
> syllabic cuneiform.  Now, although they used an alphabet of some 30 letters
> or so, the alphabetic system was in cuneiform.  It wasn't the regular
> ox-head
> A, house B system.  It's sort of their own peculiar invention -- a way to
> write
> the alphabet, but in cuneiform.  So how come when they invented cuneiform
> signs
> for the alphabet, they didn't invent ones for the vowels, if we know they
> differentiated them due to the syllabic cuneiform inscriptions that
> they left us?
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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