Re: Semitic rhotic questions

--- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
> > 1. Does anyone know with any acceptable degree of
> > certainty what the actual value of the Biblical
> Hebrew
> > rhotic was?
>
> It is rather possible that Old Hebrew /r/ was [G] or
> [R] because it is
> classified as guttural, and its presence in the stem
> provokes the same kind of
> phonetic changes, as, e.g. /X\/ or /?\/.
>
> -- Yitzik
Really?  I hadn't expected *that* rhotic to pop up!
Is that concidered the typical rhotic in other Semitic
langs of the period (at least in that branch)? Has
anyone ventured a scholarly opinion on the rhotic of
Phoenician, Punic or Old Aramaic?

ADam

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