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Re: dialects of Hebrew? & Lemba

From:M. C. DeMarco <mcd@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 6:25
On Mar 16, 2005, at 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> From: Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
> On Mar 15, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Rodlox R wrote: >> Out of curiosity, are there any websites or [not overly expensive] >> books >> that show at least some of the dialect differences between the spoken >> Hebrew of, for example, Spain and China? > > The only thing like that i know is the article "Pronunciations of > Hebrew" in the Encyclopedia Judaica. And it doens't have China.
Hebrew was a dead language at the time it reached Spain (as such) and probably China as well (though I'm not sure who you mean in China); "dialect" doesn't really apply here unless you're asking about Ladino. I haven't heard that the pronunciation of Hebrew in Spain was significantly different from modern Sephardic pronunciation, although some possible changes include the pronunciation of both variants of the letter bet as b (a Spanish habit which persists to this day in some Western Sephardic communities) and pronunciation of resh as uvular r rather than alveolar r (under Portuguese influence). But those are just guesses. mary _________________ mcd@mcdemarco.net http://www.mcdemarco.net/

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Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Rodlox R <rodlox@...>