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There is also a moderate hypothesis: Hebrew lacks vowels because in a
simpler Hebrew at the time of emergence of alphabet, vowels could be
unamiguously reconstructed through syntax. ...
... For example, if we assume that at
the time of emergence of aplhabet piel did not exist (and could not be
confused with vowelless paal) ...
davarI likewise explain every morphological form. They all derived from the
form.In this case you need to explain why in many cases there are
semantically distinct words which differ from one another only in their
vowels. On your theory this is impossible.
Please elaborate, I'm not sure I understood. An, example, perhaps.
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You seem to assume that Hebrew emerged in isolation as some kind of
proto-language among a previously entirely mute population.
Rather, I should call this language proto-West Semitic or proto-Egyptian.
Yes, I assume that this proto-language to which Hebrew is traceable emerged
or was offered to previously speechless humans.
You ignore a simple issue: obviously, we can trace Hebrew back to a
proto-language that had a single grammatical form, davar nouns. ...
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