Yigal, thank you and thanks to Karl and Kevin.
A question to you and to others:
Does the fact that Arabic doesn't have a "v" consonant support the
possibility that Hebrew too didn't have a "v" consonant (we know that VAV
was pronounced like WAW, and this is still the case in some Hebrew
"dialects")? If so, perhaps what later became VEIT was pronounced like BEIT?
(e.g. Ribka later became Rivka?).
A somewhat related question: Does anyone know if DALED is believed to have
been pronounced as an emphatic consonant, like in Arabic, perhaps in
addition to another pronunciation (like "d" or like "th" in "that", as do
Yemenite Jews)?
Thanks!
Rivka Sherman-Gold
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