On 09/03/2013 06:16 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
In classical Hebrew phonology, both ALEPH and HEH are silent at the ends of words. This may not have been the case in antiquity, of course, but it's very possible. I recall in the Dead Sea Scrolls seeing the word כי, /ki/, KAF-YOD in modern spelling, spelled כיא KAF-YOD-ALEPH. And there are words like גי /gaj/ which I think is found in old MSS of the Bible sometimes as GIMEL-YOD and sometimes GIMEL-YOD-ALEPH. So there's some evidence that ALEPH was silent at the ends of words a while back as well--though of course not necessarily always.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 no need to pronounce a glottal stop at the end of a sentence.
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