Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages
Angaben zur Quelle:
48,2 (2022) 47-67
Keywords:
Samaritan Hebrew language Consonants
;
Samaritan Hebrew language Pronunciation
;
Phoenician language
Abstract:
In the Samaritan reading tradition, original *ś is realised as /š/. In this article, I review the previous explanations for this phonological peculiarity, viz. a merger *ś, š 〉 š or a spelling pronunciation. I find that there is little to support the merger hypothesis (and that the assumption of the same merger in Phoenician also rests on very shaky ground), and that a spelling pronunciation is a more likely explanation of the Samaritan phenomenon.
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