Joao:
>What;s the difference between Semitic and Semitish?
Semitic is a reconstructed language spoken around Palestine at maybe 6000
BCE or so. Semitish is my own theory which serves to explain mythological
and linguistic similarities between Semitic and IE. There are also Semitic
loanwords in Kartvelian, Etruscan and Lemnian, that appear to have been
borrowed early on. Semitic is too far south to have ever affected IE,
EtruscoLemnian or Kartvelian, and yet there are many suspicious parallels to
be found that just don't go away.
Semitish therefore would be a northern dialect, sister to Semitic, spoken in
West Anatolia and the Balkans by 6000 BCE and extinct by 5000-4000 BCE.
Semitic and Semitish would derive from a Semitoid protolanguage spoken
around 8000 BCE in the Palestinian region. I view it as the language
responsible for Semitic loanwords into IE, EtruscoLemnian and Kartvelian,
especially agricultural in nature since the Semitish-speaking peoples would
have also been the first to bring agriculture into Europe.
- gLeN
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