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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Âàäèì Ïîíàðÿäîâ" <ponaryad@...>
wrote:
> Really, Assyrian (and cuneiform writing at all) had no signs for
phonemes more back then velar/uvular. Perhaps, Hebrew spelling can
help? Is Hebrew or Phoenician word for Assur known? Although,
unfortunately, Hebrew has no words with initial vowels. So there
automatically is to be a glottal stop. But another laringeals can
testify that they were also in Assyrian.
Hebrew has aleph in the word for Assur.
Richard.