| Yemenite Hebrew Language |
Article Index for Yemenite |
Website Links For Hebrew |
Information AboutYemenite Hebrew Language |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT YEMENITE HEBREW | |
| hebrew language | |
| jews and judaism in yemen | |
| languages of yemen | |
|
It is believed by some scholars that its Phonology was heavily influenced by spoken Yemeni Arabic . Yet, according to other scholars as well as Yemenite Jewish Rabbis such as Rabbi Yosef Qafih , Temani Hebrew was not influenced by Yemenite Arabic, as this type of Arabic was also spoken by Yemenite Jews and is distinct from the liturgical Hebrew and the conversational Hebrew of the communities. Among the dialects of Hebrew preserved into modern times, Yemenite Hebrew is traditionally regarded as the form closest to Hebrew as used in ancient times, particularly Tiberian Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew . This is evidenced in part by the fact that Yemenite Hebrew preserves a separate sound for every consonant except for ס ''sāmekh'' and ש ''śîn'', which are both pronounced /s/. ( Morag ) DISTINGUISHING FEATURES
Yemenite pronunciation is not uniform, and Morag has distinguished five sub-dialects, of which the best known is probably Sana'ani, originally spoken by Jews in and around Sana'a . Roughly, the points of difference are as follows:
HISTORY Yemenite Hebrew may have been derived from, or influenced by, the Hebrew of the Geonic Era Babylonian Jews : the oldest Yemenite manuscripts use the Babylonian rather than the Tiberian system of vowel symbols. In certain respects, such as the assimilation of ''patahh'' and ''segol'', the current Yemenite pronunciation fits the Babylonian notation better than the Tiberian. It does not follow, as claimed by some scholars, that the pronunciation of the two communities was identical, any more than the pronunciation of Sephardim and Ashkenazim is the same because both use the Tiberian symbols. In fact there are certain characteristic scribal errors, such as the confusion of ''holam'' with ''tsere'', found only or mainly in the Yemenite manuscripts, indicating that the assimilation of these two vowels was always a Yemenite peculiarity (or possibly a local variant within the wider Babylonian family, which the Yemenites happened to follow). IN ISRAELI CULTURE There have been a number of Yemenite performers who have have utilized Yemenite Hebrew in their music such as:
SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
REFERENCES
|
|
|