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msh210
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2020-08-19T16:18:29Z (over 3 years ago)
Geoffrey Khan's (open access!) book, "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew"[^1], discusses the pronunciation of Hebrew according to the Masoretes of Tiberias, who were active about a millennium ago; section I.0.4 gives some history. The author notes in the preface, however, that the pronunciation described in modern textbooks does "not correspond to the pronunciation of the Tiberian Masoretes."- Section I.1.9 is on the pronunciation of ט (*Ṭet*),
- >Emphatic (i.e. pharyngealized, with retracted tongue root and
- increased muscular pressure) unvoiced alveolar plosive [tˁ]
- https://www.tiberianhebrew.com/teth has an audio clip of its pronunciation.
- Section I.1.23 is on the pronunciation of ת (*Tav*),
- >*Tav* with dagesh (תּ): unvoiced aspirated alveolar stop [t<sup>h</sup>]
- >
- >*Tav* without dagesh (ת): unvoiced alveolar fricative [θ]
- https://www.tiberianhebrew.com/tav has an audio clip of both sounds.
- On the form of Tav without dagesh, along with some other letters, Khan writes in I.1.25,
- >In general, the fricative variants of the בגדכפת letters (i.e. the forms written without a dagesh sign: [v], [ʁ], [ð], [χ], [f] and [θ], respectively) occur after a vowel when the letter is not geminated
- [^1]: Geoffrey Khan, *The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew*, Volume I. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0163
- [Geoffrey Khan](//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Khan)'s (open access!) book, "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew"[^1], discusses the pronunciation of Hebrew according to the Masoretes of Tiberias, who were active about a millennium ago; section I.0.4 gives some history. The author notes in the preface, however, that the pronunciation described in modern textbooks does "not correspond to the pronunciation of the Tiberian Masoretes."
- Section I.1.9 is on the pronunciation of ט (*Ṭet*),
- >Emphatic (i.e. pharyngealized, with retracted tongue root and
- increased muscular pressure) unvoiced alveolar plosive [tˁ]
- https://www.tiberianhebrew.com/teth has an audio clip of its pronunciation.
- Section I.1.23 is on the pronunciation of ת (*Tav*),
- >*Tav* with dagesh (תּ): unvoiced aspirated alveolar stop [t<sup>h</sup>]
- >
- >*Tav* without dagesh (ת): unvoiced alveolar fricative [θ]
- https://www.tiberianhebrew.com/tav has an audio clip of both sounds.
- On the form of Tav without dagesh, along with some other letters, Khan writes in I.1.25,
- >In general, the fricative variants of the בגדכפת letters (i.e. the forms written without a dagesh sign: [v], [ʁ], [ð], [χ], [f] and [θ], respectively) occur after a vowel when the letter is not geminated
- [^1]: Geoffrey Khan, *The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew*, Volume I. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0163
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user53100
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2020-08-18T10:23:38Z (over 3 years ago)
Geoffrey Khan's (open access!) book, "The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew"[^1], discusses the pronunciation of Hebrew according to the Masoretes of Tiberias, who were active about a millennium ago; section I.0.4 gives some history. The author notes in the preface, however, that the pronunciation described in modern textbooks does "not correspond to the pronunciation of the Tiberian Masoretes." Section I.1.9 is on the pronunciation of ט (*Ṭet*), >Emphatic (i.e. pharyngealized, with retracted tongue root and increased muscular pressure) unvoiced alveolar plosive [tˁ] https://www.tiberianhebrew.com/teth has an audio clip of its pronunciation. Section I.1.23 is on the pronunciation of ת (*Tav*), >*Tav* with dagesh (תּ): unvoiced aspirated alveolar stop [t<sup>h</sup>] > >*Tav* without dagesh (ת): unvoiced alveolar fricative [θ] https://www.tiberianhebrew.com/tav has an audio clip of both sounds. On the form of Tav without dagesh, along with some other letters, Khan writes in I.1.25, >In general, the fricative variants of the בגדכפת letters (i.e. the forms written without a dagesh sign: [v], [ʁ], [ð], [χ], [f] and [θ], respectively) occur after a vowel when the letter is not geminated [^1]: Geoffrey Khan, *The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew*, Volume I. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0163