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Re: dialects of Hebrew? & Lemba

From:Rodlox R <rodlox@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 18:37
>Subject: Re: dialects of Hebrew? & Lemba >Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:15:31 -0500 > >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);
the Chinese Jews. (I learned of their existance when I was a member of a Khazaria egroup -- someone posted a link to a website about the Jews of China...though I don't have that bookmark on this computer). and, according to that History Channel program I watched the other day, the Lemba claim descent from the Kingdom of Israel (not Judah), when Assyria invaded...then they went to Yemen, East Africa, and on down to South Africa. _ http://www.historychannel.com/diggingforthetruth/?page=archive _
>"dialect" doesn't really apply here unless you're asking about Ladino.
Ladino, Sephardic, etc. it wasn't until I signed off the internet that I remembered the proper term: "Hebrew-based or derived from Hebrew"....."accent" had been the best I could think of. my apologies.
>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.
better guesses than I could have made, most certainly.
>mary >_________________ >mcd@mcdemarco.net >http://www.mcdemarco.net/