Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 09:13:54AM -0400, Uzi Silber wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> I was in Deal NJ this weekend (where many NYC Syrian Jews summer);
> a friend there told me that many Aleppo Jews used to pronounce the word
> kiddush as "'edush", and that this was adopted from Baghdadi Jews who had
> moved to Aleppo.
> 
> Is anyone familiar with this? How and why would kof be pronounced this way?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> uzi silber

In some arabic dialects the Q is pronounced as hamza. (E.g. in the
palestinian dialect of Jerusalem and other big cities).

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
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