[B-Greek] /sh/ sound?

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Sun Jan 4 20:32:27 EST 2004


In a message dated 1/4/2004 8:20:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tedsmath at yahoo.com writes:
How best would you express the English /sh/ sound 
in ancient Greek?

My first guess was to trace it through Judges 12:6, 
because that passage turns on the pronunciation of 
the /sh/ sound.  But as you can see below, the 
translators of the LXX chose not to transliterate it.

Anybody know?
_________

My guess is that it simply did not exist in Greek.  I don't recall ever 
having heard of this sound in Greek though I'm not big on pronunciation.  In Coptic 
they borrowed many of the letters from the Greek alphabet and added ones for 
sounds which had no equivalent in Greek.  One of these added letters was the 
"shai".  

gfsomsel



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