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  • From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: "Darrell Smith" <Darrell.H.Smith AT sceptreofjudah.org>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:39:19 -0600

----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell Smith" <Darrell.H.Smith AT sceptreofjudah.org>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] logograms--an ode to Hebrew


From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel AT juno.com>

BTW: "Me Tarzan, you Jane. Ugh!" No, I don't think Hebrew is an
artificial language. If it were then other Semitic languages would need
to be as well.

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!

This just is not true. Akkadian was the earliest recorded Semitic language. Protosemitic divided into geographic divisions and Northwest Semitic consisted of Aramaic, Canaanite and Ugaritic. Ugaritic is important in the development of proto-Sinaitic and Canaanite and the evolution of these languages produced Phoenician, Hebrew and Moabite. You need to explain to me what "proto-Hebrew" is.

Jack




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