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On how many pre-alphabet piel/paal Akkadian examples do you rely? Is the
difference between pre-alphabet Akkadian piel and paal really semantic,
beyond mere intensity? If you date "hieroglyphic" Semitic alphabet to 2000
BCE inscription, I don't think we have a meaningful number of earlier
Akkadian examples of piel semantically different from paal. ...
... Besides,Please lay off the Russian nationalism. Russian is only more powerful than Ukrainian in that it has had more guns behind it. The Ukrainians and most of your neighbours hate you Russians, and for very good reasons, because you have oppressed them and still interfere in their internal affairs. No wonder they don't want your language any more.
Akkadian might be more developed. In the modern time, post-Soviet Ukrainians
try to develop their language from scratch, and do so primitively, instead
of accepting powerful Russian language.
davar form.I likewise explain every morphological form. They all derived from the
Just think of any two nouns which have the same consonants (and no
matres lectionis) but different vowels, and clearly different meanings.
Even an obvious pair like MELEK "king" and MALKA "queen" are
distinguished only by vowels (the final he in the latter is a mater
lectionis, a late development).
Why do you think hey is mater lectionis, and not consonantal suffix? I don't
think this view is universally accepted.
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Well, your assumption is very different to those of most scholars, and
myself.
Would you agree with these points:
- at some time, speechless humans received or developed a primitive language
- primitive language had a single grammatical form, nounsNo. We can only speculate, but just as likely the first words were commands, verbs in the imperative.
- Hebrew developed, ...
... accumulating grammatical forms
- earlier stages of development of proto-Hebrew included progressively less
grammatical forms
- at some time in prehistory, very primitive proto-Hebrew had a single
grammatical form, davar nouns
- C'C' and C'C'C' nouns are perfectly suitable for humans beginning to speak
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You are right, I simplified the matter. Let's replace "davar nouns" with
"c'c' and c'c'c' nouns." Would you agree that proto-Hebrew at some time
consisted only of such nouns? This seems fairly obvious. This was a
single-vowel language.
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