[Avodah] Aramaic Pronunciation

[David Riceman]

Yosef Skolnick wrote:
> Rabbi Frank in the intro to the white germorah grammar book has a long 
> discussion about this.  He says that there are a few trends of thought 
> wrt to aramaic grammer and the locations of the nekudos.  So it 
> actually depends on which school of thought you are speaking about.
Not only that; it depends on which dialect of Aramaic you want.  Aramaic 
split analogously to Latin, and for essentially the same reasons.  Jews 
used at least three different dialects in the Rabbinic period.  In the 
sixties Franz Rosenthal published a four volume set called "An Aramaic 
Handbook" with detailed examples of several dialects.

David Riceman