what if the ancient Hebrew writing was not letters as we use them in
modern languages (and even in some ancient languages such as Greek) giving
every sound, rather it was a syllabery? And that each syllable was a
consonant followed by a vowel?
Cuneiform has diiferent signs for syllables differing by vowel. Hebrew has
no such distinction. I suggest that proto-West Semitic or Egyptian script
was syllabary (there was not concept of individual letters yet), but since
the language had a single vowel, syllables were equivalent to consonants.
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