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  • From: fred putnam <fred.putnam AT gmail.com>
  • To: Kirk Lowery <kirk AT grovescenter.org>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:12:43 -0500

I believe that Fred's (Burlingame) link is to the history of the alphabet.

Peace.

Fred

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Kirk Lowery <kirk AT grovescenter.org> wrote:

> On 11/24/10 12:11 PM, Christopher Kimball wrote:
> >
> > Is Greek usually considered a cognate language of Hebrew?
>
> No. Greek is Indo-European. Hebrew is a member of the Semitic family.
> Naturally,
> there is some influence of one on the other because of people speaking both
> languages and the LXX, etc.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Kirk
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