Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>]

From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>


> I am sorry, but in my humble opinion, "proto-Semitic" is a legend.
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You mentioned you are a mathematician.
It's quite unfortunate that you have such absurd dogmas,
There is something extremely mathematical and matricial in sound 
correspondences,
but you fail to perceive that structural feature.
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> A  very deep Ayin may indeed come close to a G or even an R.
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G (velar or uvular) is in fact less deep that Ayin (pharyngeal).

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