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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects

From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
To: "James Spinti" <JSpinti AT Eisenbrauns.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:09:19 +0100

From: "James Spinti" <JSpinti AT Eisenbrauns.com>

Please remember that Hebrew/Aramaic/Moabite/Phoenician are all Semitic
languages. And, remember that Semitic languages are more closely related
than Indo-European languages.
Navajo is not related to any known language, so it is not at all
surprising that it didn't expand into the Indo-European languages.
In other words, your comparison to Navajo isn't a significant piece of
data.

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Navajo is an Athabaskan language, and more generally a member of Na-Dene.

It definitely has relatives.
Some close, some more distant.

Arnaud Fournet

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[b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, Yigal Levin, 01/03/2011
- Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, fred burlingame, 01/03/2011
  - Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, James Spinti, 01/04/2011
    - Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, Arnaud Fournet, 01/04/2011
      - Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, James Spinti, 01/04/2011
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, Arnaud Fournet, 01/04/2011
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, K Randolph, 01/04/2011
    - Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, fred burlingame, 01/04/2011
      - Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, K Randolph, 01/04/2011
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, fred burlingame, 01/04/2011
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, Yigal Levin, 01/04/2011
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, Arnaud Fournet, 01/04/2011
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, fred burlingame, 01/04/2011
        Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, Uzi Silber, 01/04/2011