Re: Yiddish spelling
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 7, 2000, 20:29 |
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At 14:43 -0500 7.1.2000, John Cowan wrote:
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>Because the spirit of the Hebrew alphabet is against it. The use of yod and
>vav as matres lectionis (vowel letters) predates the whole diacritic system.
But Alef was also being used as a mater lectionis all the the way from
Cadiz to Kucha long before the Hebrew diacritic system was invented, and I
took for granted that it was so used in Hebrew as well since ancient times.
Not so?
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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