[Avodah] Ancient Ashkenazi Hebrew

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In Avodah Digest, Vol 28, Issue 176 dated 8/26/2011 RMB wrote:
 
Ayin in  particular was likely not the Sepharadi sound. The evidence
of the nickname  Yankl points more to the /ng/ of the Italkim.


Micha  Berger              
micha at aishdas.org         



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How did Aza and Amorah become Gaza and Gemorrah?  Was there originally  
some kind of nasal G sound to the ayin that could be pronounced at the 
beginning  of a word?  The "ng" sound is natural in the middle or end of a word but  
would be hard to pronounce at the beginning of a word.
 

--Toby Katz
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