Re: Consonantal Ayin in Yiddish? (fwd)

[I. Oppenheim <i.oppenheim...>]

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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:18:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Israel Man <i_man (at) rocketmail(dot)com>
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Subject: Re: [jewishshulmusic] Re: Consonantal Ayin in Yiddish? (fwd)

Originally it was probably pronounced like the Arab
pronounce the name of the city "Gaza" which we
pronounce "Aza". It is a combination of present day
Ayin and Gimel And Dutch G.

Israel Man

--- "I. Oppenheim" <i(dot)oppenheim (at) xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:00:11 -0800
> From: Sylvie Braitman <curlySylvie (at) hotmail(dot)com>
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> To: World music from a Jewish slant
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> Subject: Re: Consonantal Ayin in Yiddish? (fwd)
>
> This is fascinating!
> Ayin is a semitic sound. As far as I know there is
> no equivalent in any
> western language. It involves a glottal at the
> beginning. This is my
> question: isn't it likely that this glottal sound
> evolved, in a western
> context, into an ng, the closest phonem available?
> Isn't it the closest
> phonem available, since to do an Ayin properly, one
> has to activate the soft
> palate almost in a way that one does to do the ng.
> Sylvie

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