By: ryan
I’d guess there is more history to be gleaned as well in cuneiforms documents including ones that are unpublished, others poorly understood and still others still lingering in unexcavated tells. Does...
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#1, we don’t know that it didn’t persist as long as latin. it was certainly spoken in st. augustine’s time, he mentions it. but it may have been a marginal rustic language, and therefore disappeared...
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Ryan, Punic was not really that closely related to Aramaic. It developed as the North African dialect of Phoenician colonists, and was thus more closely related to the so-called Canaanite dialects...
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I’ve read something about language in New Guinea, and apparently there small face-to-face groups have conscious language policies, and because of paranoia about witchcraft, warfare, etc., groups want...
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Robert, Canaanite and old Aramaic are pretty damn close themselves. Augustine is thought to have understood Biblical Hebrew via his knowledge of Punic. There continued to be important imperial trading...
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Razib, and others, can you tell me how Italian developed out of Latin as it disappeared after the Arab conquest?
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#5, i have a friend who speaks hebrew who claimed that the aramaic in the passion of the christ was easy for him to understand (he has conversational arabic too). so your assertion rings true to me.
View ArticleBy: ryan
I’d guess there is more history to be gleaned as well in cuneiforms documents including ones that are unpublished, others poorly understood and still others still lingering in unexcavated tells. Does...
View ArticleBy: Razib Khan
#1, we don’t know that it didn’t persist as long as latin. it was certainly spoken in st. augustine’s time, he mentions it. but it may have been a marginal rustic language, and therefore disappeared...
View ArticleBy: Robert Frosch
Ryan, Punic was not really that closely related to Aramaic. It developed as the North African dialect of Phoenician colonists, and was thus more closely related to the so-called Canaanite dialects...
View ArticleBy: John Emerson
I’ve read something about language in New Guinea, and apparently there small face-to-face groups have conscious language policies, and because of paranoia about witchcraft, warfare, etc., groups want...
View ArticleBy: ryan
Robert, Canaanite and old Aramaic are pretty damn close themselves. Augustine is thought to have understood Biblical Hebrew via his knowledge of Punic. There continued to be important imperial trading...
View ArticleBy: Marian
Razib, and others, can you tell me how Italian developed out of Latin as it disappeared after the Arab conquest?
View ArticleBy: Razib Khan
#5, i have a friend who speaks hebrew who claimed that the aramaic in the passion of the christ was easy for him to understand (he has conversational arabic too). so your assertion rings true to me.
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