Arnaud:***
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Arnaud Fournet
<fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>wrote:
I don’t know ancient Egyptian, so my question is, did it have the “x”
Arnaud Fournet
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phoneme or anything similar? If not, then is not the “ts” phoneme the
closest to “x” that they had?
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Secondly, how well do we know ancient Egyptian pronunciation? Just as there
are variances among members of this list concerning pre-Babylonian Exile
Hebrew pronunciation,
so are there reasons to question what we “know” about***
ancient Egyptian pronunciation?
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Thirdly, assuming that the Greek pronunciation of Xi was the “x” phoneme,
there is evidence that as late as the Persian period,
the Hebrew samekh was***
pronounced as an “x”, though there is evidence that it was losing its “x”
sound to be replaced with a simple “s” phoneme (Nehemia 2:1, 5:14, 13:6,
Ezra sometimes with a samekh, sometimes with a sin e.g. Ezra 4:7–8, 7:1,
8:1).
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Look forward to your answer.
Karl W. Randolph.
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