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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">In Avodah Digest, Vol 28, Issue 176 dated 8/26/2011 RMB wrote:</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Ayin in
particular was likely not the Sepharadi sound. The evidence<BR>of the nickname
Yankl points more to the /ng/ of the Italkim.<BR><BR> <BR>Micha
Berger
<BR>micha@aishdas.org
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><B><BR>--Toby Katz<BR>================</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________
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