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8th December 2005, 10:24 AM
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| The weird one  Join Date: Mar 2004
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| Hebrew or Phoenician? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4422628.stm This appears to be a very ancient alphabet, either Hebrew (posibly dubiously) or Phoenician. what do you gusy think? If it was Hebrew, would it not be a different type of language to Phoenician, which I was aware was the ancestor of Greek and Latin and therefore our own langauges, and Hebrew is a semitic language, a different type if language? So I wonder why they are so similar here that there is confusion as to which one it is? |
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10th December 2005, 09:15 AM
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| Admin and Tea-boy  | Re: Hebrew or Phoenician? I'm under the impression that Phoenician was a Canaanite language and part of the semitic language group - so indeed it may be a precursor to the general set of languages, but probably not identifiable as with any specific one. |
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