10-21-2008, 08:58 AM
shlomo bar Sinko,
In West-Syriac we use the following rules of pronunciation:
a-lo-ho <= You stress on the before last syllable ("lo")
a-bo <="a"
shlo-mo <= "shlo"
a-vun <= You stress on the last syllable ("vun")
mo-ran <= "ran"
push bashlomo,
keefa-morun
bar Sinko Wrote:This has me a little confused. Way back when I learned a little Hebrew, I seem to remember that Hebrew words usually have stress on the last syllable (eg. shaLOM, shaBBAT, aDAM, bereSHIT, eloHIM, toRAH, etc).
Also, the book I got to try to learn some Aramaic in advance of Mari seems to stress the first syllable quite often. The book, "The Syriac Primer" by George Anton Kiraz, uses Western pronunciation as well as the Serto script, so perhaps it's different for the Eastern dialects?
In West-Syriac we use the following rules of pronunciation:
a-lo-ho <= You stress on the before last syllable ("lo")
a-bo <="a"
shlo-mo <= "shlo"
a-vun <= You stress on the last syllable ("vun")
mo-ran <= "ran"
push bashlomo,
keefa-morun