1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang July 2000
2 32 46_RE: consonantal pronunciation in Modern Hebrew13_Richard Isaac18_rmisaac@eskimo.com37_Fri, 28 Jul 2000 01:14:44 -0700 (PDT)354_US-ASCII On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Rosenfelder, Yehezkel wrote:<br><br>> Ashkenazim had a technical problem with the gutteral het and over the > years it took on the chaf pronunciation. > > For this reason, some Ashkenazi Israelis adopted the Yemenite het<br><br>I'm not clear on the difference b/w the "guttural" and "Yemenite" h.et; can you elaborate? [...]
35 52 46_RE: consonantal pronunciation in Modern Hebrew10_Jerry Blaz19_ffdog@earthlink.net31_Fri, 28 Jul 2000 01:36:39 -0700576_us-ascii While there are a number of fricative palatal sounds that go from the German "noch" to the German "ich" (that in Yiddish is even softened to an "sh" sound like in "nisht") the Xet sound is a uvular fricative, a sound coming from behind the palate, and unknown in European languages. It is very common for people trying to use a sound that is not in their vocabulary, or which does not appear in their "native" vocabulary of sound sequences, to substitute sounds. Thus, for many Central and Eastern Europeans the "v" is substituted for the English "w." Thus, the [...]
88 252 32_Re: [Fwd: Resh in modern Hebrew]7_Sefarad21_sefarad@geocities.com31_Fri, 28 Jul 2000 22:32:26 -0400441_US-ASCII Here is a copy of Scott's e-mail. I am sending it to list as he requested. By the way, I am glad I asked this question. I have learn so much from the dialogue. Thank you my friends. (Maybe some day we should all meet for a few days conference on Hebrew language, the kind for mutual support, learning from each other, etc. Does the Association of Hebrew Language Teachers in Ohio do anything like that? Do you know there URL?) [...]