Jim obviously does think otherwise. I haven't read much on Akkadian for a while, but last I did the consensus was that Akkadian retained more of the consonants of Proto-Semitic than were represented in the syllabary. I just wanted Jim to consider that perhaps he was reading the evidence the wrong way around.
Kevin Riley On 10/05/2011 9:31 AM, Yigal Levin wrote: > I'll have to admit that I never thought otherwise. Of course Akkadian > actually has what in Hebrew is called the Aleph. But then, I learned Akkadian > in Hebrew, so this was a natural assumption. > > Yigal Levin > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Riley > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Mighty > > You might notice, just in passing, that all the Semitic languages except > Akkadian start words with a consonant. Therefore only Akkadian has an > initial A. Does that not suggest, especially when you take into account > everything known about Akkadian, that perhaps there was no initial 'true > vowel A', but in fact an ) ? > > Kevin Riley > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > > > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
