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Re: Glottal stop (Danish, Arabic, Hebrew)

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From: Matthew P Wiener
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 20:12
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In article <1992Oct22.155515.44059@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, miner@kuhub writes:
>> Surely the fact that in Greek ayin was translitered with a gamma (eg,
>> Gaza, Gemorah) tells us something?  What, I don't know.

>It probably looked like a gamma, for one thing.  Cf. modern cursive
>style.  Semitists, help us out!

The modern cursive style comes more than a millennia after the Septuagint.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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