Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>]

I'll check out the Wiki thing.  The last time I was in Israel, I stayed with 
a friend of mine at Tel Aviv University. He was a Yemenite Jew and was 
explaining some of the phonology.  It has become an item of interest now 
because I am doing a lot of work on ancient inscriptions.  It's natural when 
you read them to wonder about things like phonology, sibilants, waw 
consecutives, etc.  I guess what intrigued me is what circumstances would 
preserve archaisms in phonology in Hebrew spoken in Yemen if, in fact, it is 
true.

Jack Kilmon


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From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:16 AM
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Yemenite Hebrew

> This seems to be fairly concise, but remember it is a Wiki article:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite_Hebrew.
>
> But to a certain extent, I get the feeling that the idea that the Yemenite
> pronunciation is the "original" is more romanticist than linguistic.
>
> Yigal Levin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnaud Fournet [mailto:fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 12:52 PM
> To: Yigal Levin
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Yemenite Hebrew
>
>
> > There are scholars who believe Yemenite Hebrew is closest to ancient
> > Hebrew.
> >
> > Jack Kilmon
> ***
>
> May we learn more about Yemenite Hebrew, especially from a phonetic point 
> of
>
> view?
>
> Regards.
>
> Arnaud Fournet
>
>
>
>
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