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On 09/03/2013 06:16 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 18:02:18 MorphemeAddict wrote:
>> I have never before heard that speech strings end in a glottal stop,
>> especially for English or Lojban. The denpa pu is not always a glottal
>> stop. It can be just absence of sound. No elision required.
> In some Semitic languages speech strings do end in a glottal stop, though=
 when
> Adon Olam was written it was silent: lines ending in "ra'" rhyme
> indiscriminately with lines ending in "rah". In Lojban, though, there's n=
o
> need to pronounce a glottal stop at the end of a sentence.
>
In classical Hebrew phonology, both ALEPH and HEH are silent at the ends=20
of words.  This may not have been the case in antiquity, of course, but=20
it's very possible.  I recall in the Dead Sea Scrolls seeing the word=20
=D7=9B=D7=99, /ki/, KAF-YOD in modern spelling, spelled =D7=9B=D7=99=D7=90 =
KAF-YOD-ALEPH.  And=20
there are words like =D7=92=D7=99 /gaj/ which I think is found in old MSS o=
f the=20
Bible sometimes as GIMEL-YOD and sometimes GIMEL-YOD-ALEPH.  So there's=20
some evidence that ALEPH was silent at the ends of words a while back as=20
well--though of course not necessarily always.

~mark

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