[Avodah] Ancient Ashkenazi Hebrew

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R"n Toby Katz wrote:

> 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.
 
Tell that to the millions of Chinese for whom "Ng" in their entire surname.

(For more info, see both articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_(surname)  It seems that the very same name is transliterated both as "Ng" and as "Woo" or "Wu".)

Akiva Miller


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