samekh and sin

Date: 19 Apr 2004
Time: 16:18:44 -0700

Comments

The pronunciation guide on your webpage says, "The letter Sin (ie: the Shin with out the dot) and Samawkh have slightly different sounds", but there's no information about the nature of the difference. Would it be possible to put a sound file on the page as an illustration? I actually think of a handful of words with different kinds of hissing sounds, like one with samekh, the next with sin and the next with either samekh again or shin, and so on a few times, so the difference could be perceived more easily. Thank you in advance.