03-20-2004, 12:18 PM
shlomo oh bar_khela,
but any proto-semitic (if such thing as a "proto-semitic" source exists) features it picked up came from Aramaic, since classical Arabic didn't exists in the proto-semitic area.
The word proto-semitic suggests that you belive there was a language prior to the semitic language. I believe the Semitic language is the oldest known form of a language on Earth.
poosh bahslomo,
keefa-moroon
but any proto-semitic (if such thing as a "proto-semitic" source exists) features it picked up came from Aramaic, since classical Arabic didn't exists in the proto-semitic area.
The word proto-semitic suggests that you belive there was a language prior to the semitic language. I believe the Semitic language is the oldest known form of a language on Earth.
poosh bahslomo,
keefa-moroon
bar_khela Wrote:Shlama Akhi Paul,
You've done very well. Both Aramaic and classical Arabic seem to have preserved a vast majority of proto-Semitic features (each preserving those features in its unique way) and most philologists seem to deny this in their academic journals