Re: About Hebrew pronunciation

On May 31, 2004, at 6:25 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Emily Zilch scripsit:
>> My own study and use of Hebrew is somewhat ConLang... I don't
>> pronounce
>> the singleton consonants as fricatives (i.e. p > f, b > v, t > T
>> etc.),
>> I do pronounce doubled consonants as such and (perhaps influenced by
>> Syriac) I pronounce the vowels as such:
>
> OT:  If people who are interested in the subject of
> this thread, or Hebrew orthography generally, would read
> http://qaya.org/academic/hebrew/Holam.html and send me their comments.

Well, i agree that it's *very important* to distinguish |hholam malei|
/o/ from |vav + hholam hhaseir| /vo/, but i don't really have much
knowledge of the inner workings of Unicode.  I just used (if i inputted
it correctly) the A2 solution suggested there to produce a /vo/, and it
does look different than |hholam malei| in that font, barely.


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