In a message dated 11/16/2004 10:14:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
MarianneLuban AT aol.com writes:
> In the orthography, samekh was written very many times with Egyptian /T/, a
>
> grapheme of unknown value, which later became interchangeable with Egyptian
> /t/
> and lost its original sound. I can't swear to the accuracy of this, but it
> may be that /T/ once had the value of the Castilian vocalization of the c
> in
>
> Barcelona as "Barthelona". Not quite the same as the English dipthong
> "th"--but
> something near.
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I suppose it would be helpful to give som examples. "sofer", scribe, written
in Egyptian as "TwpAir". "suf", reed, "Twf" or "Twfy".