From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 22:19:30 EST
On 12/28/03 20:40, John Cowan wrote:
>Similar statements can be made about Hebrew final consonants (in
>particular, Yiddish uses a non-final p for -p, since final p means -f).
>
An interesting side-note: at my parents' house a few weeks ago, I found
and flipped through an old Yiddish book. It had several oddities of
script: although it used Yiddish vowel-letters, it also had Hebrew
vowel-points. So a consonant followed by `ayin (used for /E/), also had
a Hebrew /E/-vowel under it, etc. And it consistently failed to use
final nun. At least, in the word "un" ("and") which is common enough;
always a bent nun.
(The particular dialect apparently also pronounced "iz" as /uz/, since
that's how they wrote it)
~mark
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