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  • From: "Jack Kilmon" <jkilmon AT historian.net>
  • To: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Why Semitic languages had no written vowels?
  • Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 13:33:26 -0500


----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:05 AM
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Why Semitic languages had no written vowels?


Where was writing first used? Was it stone inscriptions, or was it pen on leather? If the latter, the lack of dots had more to do with the shape of the letters which
discouraged the use of dots, than with the writing instruments used.

Karl W. Randolph.


On small pottery tokens used for counting or inventory of measures of good/grain/cattle. I cover some of this at:

http://www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm


Jack




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