Re: [tied] Re: Numerals query again + Ge'ez forms

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:24:19 +0100 (MET), Harald Hammarstrom
<haha2581@...> wrote:

>I'll check when I get home. But speaking of which, I had the pleasure once
>to study Old South Arabic for Prof. Jan Retsö. Neither nunation nor cases
>are attested there (which is not the same as saying the case vowels didn't
>exist because they wouldn't have been in the writing anyway). The forms
>(sabaic) for seven is entirely undramatic with sb3t and sb3 respectively.

Lipin'ski claims that in Epigraphic South Arabian, the indefinite is marked
by -m, the definite by -n (a sparingly used definite article -a:n(?)
according to Yusuf on sci.lang).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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