On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote:
>Obviously the Right Thing is to pronounce samekh as [s] and sin as [K}; i.e.,
>voiceless lateral fricative!
>
>(It must have had a lateral component at one time, as in the classic example of
>Eng. "balsam" from a cognate of B-Sin-M.)
ji'a zoi xes. xaldaioi .xes xe lerfanva zoi bro. kasdim .bro
co'omi'e pier.