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Re: Semitic rhotic questions

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Thursday, November 6, 2003, 16:45
> 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

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