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Did certain traits of the Babylonian Masoretic pronunciation, also apply to the aramaic of the Talmud Bavli?

For example, in Tanakh, according to the most common tradition, dating from the Tiberian Masoretes, ו is pronounced [v], like as בֿ.

However, the Babylonian Masoretes had ו as [w], preserving the even more ancient pronunciation.

The Talmud Bavli was, obviously, written in Bavel. Are there any grounds to believe that this ו was originally pronounced in the Gemara as W, instead of V?

Does this also apply to other aspects of the Babylonian pronunciation of Tanakh (e.g. Segol-Patach merger, some words with a silent initial Shva, ר being an “Italian” trill in every instance, etc.)?

Edit: My focus is on the first and last paragraphs. If the answer would be “yes” in most cases except regarding the pronunciation of ו, please say so. I only used ו as an example, and I realize there are many other examples I could have used.

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  • Probably whoever read it read it however they usually spoke, no matter where or when they lived.
    – Double AA ♦
    Commented Aug 2 at 16:01
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    Why do you think that Tiberian Jews pronounced vav as v and not w?
    – Kazi bácsi
    Commented Aug 3 at 20:03
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    Then add this relevant information in your post!
    – Kazi bácsi
    Commented Aug 4 at 19:54
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    Then your question is trivial. People usually use the same sound set to pronounce both their native language and foreign languages. Therefore Americans will use a very characteristic rhotic r sound for the Hebrew ר, the French will make it guttural and I say it as a trill. Same story with the Ashkenazi s for ת. It's very difficult to deviate from this. Therefore it's clear that the Babylonians used the same sounds for reading the Tanakh and teaching the Talmud. (And I'm also sure that it wasn't uniform due to dialects. See also Megillah 24b.)
    – Kazi bácsi
    Commented Aug 5 at 6:26
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    @Kazibácsi Not necessarily. Firstly, the Masoretic era didn’t overlap the Talmudic era, but rather came after it; and secondly, Biblical Hebrew is not the same as Babylonian Judeo-Aramaic. An identical written consonantal system and just-barely-comparable vocabulary and grammar does not necessarily correspond to a similar or identical phonological or phonetic structure—although it might. That’s what I’m trying to discover.
    – QwertyCTRL.
    Commented Aug 5 at 15:56

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There are still surviving dialects of Aramaic in Iraq. One example is Syriac, and here it is with a waw

https://youtu.be/lOD1JC5JLDw?si=CT2xfaLzS7v5ZVvv

This doesn't prove what the Bavli sounded like. But Waw in Semitic languages seems to be a letter that's part consonant and part vowel, same as yod. Aramaic, Arabic, and other semitic languages usually spoke it as Waw, as making it a Vav shifts it more to being a consonant than a vowel. Most Iraqi Jews I've met also pronounce it as Waw for their Hebrew. Iraqis even have their own Aleph bet song that they teach to their kids and sing for Simhat Torah. The song is called Aleph Bet Gimmel Dalet Heh Waw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rBDx1TeniU

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    Rabbi Saadia Gaon in commentary to sefer Yetzirah seems to be acknoledging that vav is w, by comparing sounds of classical arabic and Hebrew.
    – Y DJ
    Commented Aug 2 at 18:45

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