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<blockquote data-quote="granpa" data-source="post: 53738479" data-attributes="member: 186179"><p>I found these on the internet:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_the_French_pronounce_R_like_that" target="_blank">WikiAnswers - Why do the French pronounce R like that</a></p><p>There is more than one French r. It may trilled or uvular. The uvular French or German r, incidentally, is identical to the Arabic 'ayin, a sound so foreign to English that it doesn't even have a letter, only an apostrophe. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:hXeMSh3QyGkJ:lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/1998-December/000873.html+ayin+%22french+r%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a" target="_blank">ayin</a></p><p>So what about the theory that there were two distinct pronunciations </p><p>of `ayin and two of Het in ancient Hebrew? As I understand it, one </p><p>pair was pharyngeal (pretend you are gargling to pronounce these) and </p><p>the other pair uvular (so rather like the Parisian French "r"). Thus </p><p>`ayin would correspond to both `eyn and gheyn in Arabic (they are </p><p>written and named as variants of the same letter), and Het to Arabic </p><p>Ha and kha (similarly differing only in a dot).</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R#French" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R#French</a></p><p></p><p>if the links dont work in your browser please let me know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="granpa, post: 53738479, member: 186179"] I found these on the internet: [url=http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_the_French_pronounce_R_like_that]WikiAnswers - Why do the French pronounce R like that[/url] There is more than one French r. It may trilled or uvular. The uvular French or German r, incidentally, is identical to the Arabic 'ayin, a sound so foreign to English that it doesn't even have a letter, only an apostrophe. [url=http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:hXeMSh3QyGkJ:lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/1998-December/000873.html+ayin+%22french+r%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a]ayin[/url] So what about the theory that there were two distinct pronunciations of `ayin and two of Het in ancient Hebrew? As I understand it, one pair was pharyngeal (pretend you are gargling to pronounce these) and the other pair uvular (so rather like the Parisian French "r"). Thus `ayin would correspond to both `eyn and gheyn in Arabic (they are written and named as variants of the same letter), and Het to Arabic Ha and kha (similarly differing only in a dot). [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural_R#French[/url] if the links dont work in your browser please let me know. [/QUOTE]
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