Re: Glottal stop (Danish, Arabic, Hebrew)

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From: miner
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 00:03

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In article <94956@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
> 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.
> -- 
> -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)

Yes, but isn't it based on an older (or several) rabbinical scripts?
-- 
-Ken <miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> {Sometimes you have to look reality straight
 OPINIONS ARE MY OWN            {in the eye, and deny it. - G. Keillor

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Subject: Re: Glottal stop (Danish, Arabic, Hebrew)
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