Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] On the Pronunciation of Hebrew
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 00:42:51 EST
In a message dated 11/1/2004 10:22:08 AM Eastern Standard Time:
-the vocal chataf qamats is in Sephardic pronounced "o", but in Ashkenazic
it is pronounced "oy"
In all Ashkenazic dialects I know of, there is no difference between qamats
gadol and hataf qamats; both are pronounced "aw". It is holem which is
pronounced "oy".
Of course, there is no single "Sephardic" pronunciation and no single
"Ashkenazic" pronunciation. Lithuanian, Polish, and Hungarian
pronunciations
differ, although all are Ashkenazic; and Moroccan, Iraqi, and Turkish
pronunciations differ, although all are Sephardic. (And that use of
"Sephardic", of
course, is very loose, since Iraqi Jews are more accurately "Mizarahi", i.e.
Eastern, since they are not descended from Jews who lived in the Iberian
Peninsula.)