Yitzhak:
I don't know why you are putting so much effort to trying to convince me that your reading of language development is correct, if not to validate to yourself because of your own self doubts. I am not trying to convince you that mine is correct, just claiming that the surviving data is too sparse to say.
Take for example, when did Aramaic and Hebrew split? If we take Biblical dates, that was when Jacob left his father-
in-law Laban at about 1800 BC, give or take a century. ...
... when Moses wrote Torah in the 15th century BC, ...
Seeing as I have a major philosophic difference from you as to the validity of cognate language study, unless I changed my philosophy, even an extensive study of the materials you insist on will not change my mind. ...
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