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- From: "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 10:13:19 -0500
Arnaud,
Thanks for the correction/additional data. But, the comparison still
isn't relevant to Hebrew.
James
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arnaud Fournet [mailto:fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr]
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:09 AM
To: James Spinti
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects
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.
***
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
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
fred burlingame, 01/03/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
James Spinti, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
Arnaud Fournet, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
James Spinti, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
Arnaud Fournet, 01/04/2011
- Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, K Randolph, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
Arnaud Fournet, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
James Spinti, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
fred burlingame, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
K Randolph, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
fred burlingame, 01/04/2011
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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
- Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects, fred burlingame, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
Yigal Levin, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
fred burlingame, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
K Randolph, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
Arnaud Fournet, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
James Spinti, 01/04/2011
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Re: [b-hebrew] continuum of dialects,
fred burlingame, 01/03/2011
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