[b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Wed Dec 22 15:51:34 EST 2004
At 03:30 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
>DHS: Of course! All the Semitic languages are from the same ancestoral
>language: proto-Hebrew. This language was still the language of Noah and
>his sons (Gen. 11:1). Read Gen chapter 10 and 11. The non-Semitic
>languages were introduced as mixed-up confusing hodge-podges in Gen
>11:7-8. Proto-Hebrew was preserved in the righteous line but as time
>progressed and the different Semite groups strayed from righteousness
>their tongues drifted from Hebrew proper. Nevertheless, all Semitic
>languages are direct descendants of Proto-Hebrew!
Um. I don't think any linguist working today accepts this as a historical
possibility.
Jim
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