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# Re: Re: The Three Mothers and IHVH

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- Subject: Re: [BardonPraxis] Re: The Three Mothers and IHVH
- From: JohnWW <JohnWW@...>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:58:51 +1200
- Organization: WCA
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    One further point - I thought that Phoenician, used in what is now
    Lebanon, was an Hamitic language, not Semitic, and indeed the same as
    that used by the Canaanites in Palestine prior to the arrival of
    Israelites there. The Phoenicians colonized north Africa, where the
    Berbers are their descendants, along with in part the Somalis in east
    Africa whose language is also Hamitic. Besides Hebrew, Aramaic (spoken
    by only a few hundred Assyrian Christians), and Arabic, the only other
    Semitic language used today is Ethiopic.

    John W.

    kxcorinth wrote:

    > I ask because the Hebrew alphabet is not Hebrew at all. It is
    > Aramaic in origin. That in turn was based on the Phoenician
    > alphabet. The names of letters are not Hebrew, they are Hebrew
    > versions of Phoenician words (the two languages were cousins anyway
    > though)
    (cut)

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