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  • From: dwashbur AT nyx.net
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Fw: Re: Simple Pronunciation Question...
  • Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:22:51 -0800

My point was simply that Ugaritic may or may not have any bearing on the
topic, and it's
hard to draw any conclusions about Hebrew phonology from it.

On 18 Nov 2010 at 10:12, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

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> Well, what about the Samekh in Ugaritic, Hebrew or
> Phoenician inscriptions in addition to the Shin/Sin
> letter there? Obviously those who used both found a need to
> distinguish between their sibilants.
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>     Compare the similarity of some biblical roots with
> a Sin to those with a Samekh, such as Sin Beth Kaf/
> Samekh Beth Kaf.
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>     In this context cf. the informative Shibboleth
> incident in Jud. 12.
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>     I don't see the relevance of the three Alephs in Ug.
> here; the difference between these two languages was
> not the point.
>    
>      Uri Hurwitz                             Great Neck, NY
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> I have to take a middle ground here, because it's hard to tell from
> the pre-exilic Hebrew
> script, but Ugaritic isn't going to tell us much.  Ugaritic did in
> fact have several sibilant
> symbols, but it also had three different graphemes for Aleph,
> depending on the vowel
> associated with it.  Hebrew didn't.  so Ugaritic isn't going to be
> much help either way in this
> case.
>
> Dave Washburn
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Dave Washburn

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