Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Are not letters part and parcel of language?

Is not alphabet (consonants and vowels) of languages cognate routinely
discussed here, as a highway for understanding hebrew corresponding letters
(consonants and vowels)?

Why do hurrian or ugarit or cuneiform letters instruct the hebrew alefbet,
but greek letters do not? Or perhaps none is efficacious for guiding
understanding of the other?

regards,

fred burlingame

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:12 PM, fred putnam <fred.putnam AT gmail.com> wrote:

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