To: yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Phonetics of Ayin
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 22:39:40 EDT
Yitzhak Sapir:
If, in the second millennium BCE, "samekh was pronounced as an affricate
[ts]", then how was ssade pronounced at that time? How close to the sound
of a sin or shin was a ssade at that time?