word initial spirants vowel sandhi well rabbi saadia gaon 's attestation use alternation tiberian aramaic beginning th century nbsp ce ref name bbgd dead sea scrolls show evidence confusion phonemes eg '' mr'' masoretic 'he said' however testimony jerome indicates regionalism universal ref name sgut confusion gutturals also attested later mishnaic hebrew aramaic see eruvin b samaritan hebrew generally merged either glide
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