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[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Garth, please sign your posts with your full name.

Thank you

Yigal Levin
Co-moderator, B-Hebrew

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Garth Grenache
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 12:46 PM
To: b-hebrew
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What does H add?


Hang on a minute friends:

There are not as many syllables in Hebrew as they are consonants.
Rather, a syllable can either be typically open CV (1 consonant, 1 vowel) or
closed CVC (2 consonants, one vowel, one syllable).
Also, final H, final W and final Y were added to many words, from about the
10th century BCE, to mark a vowel after the final consonant.  So, for
example, SRH represents Sar-ra, but SR represents Sarr.

A final H often a final vowel, not a h, and not an additional syllable, but
rather that the last syllable is open CV, where the V is marked by H:  CH
                                          
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