Monthly Archives: April 2011

The Aspiration of the Tenues

Posted on April 30, 2011 by ivrit

The harder sound of the six Begadkephath letters, indicated by a Dageš lene, is to be regarded, according to the general analogy of languages, as their older and original pronunciation, from which the softer sound was weakened. The original hard … Continue reading →

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Unchangeable Hebrew Vowels

Posted on April 28, 2011 by ivrit

What vowels in Hebrew are unchangeable, i.e. are not liable to attenuation (to Šewâ), modification, lengthening, or shortening, can be known with certainty only from the nature of the grammatical forms, and in some cases by comparison with Arabic. This … Continue reading →

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