I'll check out the Wiki thing. The last time I was in Israel, I stayed with
a friend of mine at Tel Aviv University. He was a Yemenite Jew and was
explaining some of the phonology. It has become an item of interest now
because I am doing a lot of work on ancient inscriptions. It's natural when
you read them to wonder about things like phonology, sibilants, waw
consecutives, etc. I guess what intrigued me is what circumstances would
preserve archaisms in phonology in Hebrew spoken in Yemen if, in fact, it is
true.
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