03-18-2004, 11:18 PM
Shlama,
While Aramaic is older than classical Arabic as a literary language, linguists say that Arabic is the most proto-Semitic language amongst all modern Semitic languages, such as Amharic, Farsi, Hebrew, because it seemed to have retained a majority of the original features of the Afro-Asiatic lingual ancestor.
What are your thoughts on this as a linguist, Paul?
While Aramaic is older than classical Arabic as a literary language, linguists say that Arabic is the most proto-Semitic language amongst all modern Semitic languages, such as Amharic, Farsi, Hebrew, because it seemed to have retained a majority of the original features of the Afro-Asiatic lingual ancestor.
What are your thoughts on this as a linguist, Paul?
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