I realize the answer to this may be "no", but do you know--does anyone know--why a language that didn't generally write vowels (and thus didn't need to separate them in writing) has (had?) two silent letters? Or one and a half, since I'd gather that "silent, basically" means that ayin has some effect on pronunciation.
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Date: 2006-06-06 11:19 pm (UTC)