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- From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
- To: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
- Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:50:37 -0500
Some relevant mathematics.
Assume that at the end of the exodus out of Egypt some 50,000 Israelites entered their promised land. Assume, conservatively, that they had a rate of growth of 1/2% per annum. They lived upon their land for some 800 years until the destruction of the first temple, and the ensuing deportation into exile. At that time there should have been in the land of Israel some 50,000(1.005)^800= 2,700,000 Hebrew speakers, or am I wrong.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Nov 25, 2010, at 3:29 AM, Yigal Levin wrote:
Since, in the ancient world, geographic
separation also means linguistic separation, as the different groups
diverged, so did their languages, both by internal development and by being
influenced by their different neighbors. This means, in theory, that the
more similar languages are, the more recently their speakers diverged.
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Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet
, (continued)
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, fred burlingame, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, George Athas, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, Isaac Fried, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, George Athas, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, fred putnam, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, fred putnam, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, George Athas, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, fred putnam, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, fred burlingame, 11/28/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, Isaac Fried, 11/27/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, Isaac Fried, 11/25/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, Arnaud Fournet, 11/25/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, Isaac Fried, 11/25/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, Arnaud Fournet, 11/25/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, Isaac Fried, 11/25/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, Kevin Riley, 11/24/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, fred burlingame, 11/24/2010
- Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet, fred putnam, 11/24/2010
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