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Any idea what this quote means? > In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabe
by efreak 6y ago
Any idea what this quote means?
> In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabets.
What exactly is a _species of breathing_?
- c3534l 6y agoSome kind of typo or misunderstanding. "A" represented the glottal stop, not the vowel sound. Maybe the person who wrote that article was struggling to explain what a glottal stop was? Either way, its nonsense.
- dredmorbius 6y agoReference?
- culturestate 6y agoIt's a pronunciation reference. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_breathing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth_breathing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_breathing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_breathing