On 21/12/2004 16:48, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
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(Actually, the unification of yerah-ben-yomo and atnah hafukh may
actually be older than U/V and I/J. Books were printed with U/V and
I/J not distinguished for quite a long time, certainly into the 17th
century (viz. Shakespeare's First Folio, for a famous example), but
the cantillations were conflated in quite early printings of the
Bible--though not necessarily the earliest.)
The I/J unification is in fact still not complete, in some langauges. In
Italy, consonantal J is also often written in I, e.g. the same town is
known as Iesi and Jesi - at least it was in the 1980s. In Germany the
capital J shape is still used for the I sound, even on road signs seen
in the last couple of years.
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