Re: Semitic rhotic questions
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 6, 2003, 15:39 |
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On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 06:15:48 -0800, Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
wrote:
> 1. Does anyone know with any acceptable degree of
> certainty what the actual value of the Biblical Hebrew
> rhotic was?
The earliest reconstruction I'm aware of for reš (mid second millenium BCE)
is an alveolar tap (i.e. /4/), although our resident Hebrew scholars may
have better answers. AFMCL, Thagojian borrows Hebrew {r} as /d/, since in
Thagojian, {r} is /r\/.
Paul