Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)

From: Patrick Ryan
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Date: 2008-01-20

 
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Our Egyptian sources are also well developed so that it is often possible to match Egyptian and Arabic words.
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Very few people work on the connection between Coptic and Egyptian
which is the first step *before* anything else.
 
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Coptic is important. I studied Coptic at the Oriental Institute.
 
Where have you studied anything, Arnaud?
 
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Of course, I add Sumerian, which gives us some insight into the original vowels.
 
Patrick
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Sumerian is written in an awkward system
whose reconstruction is based on Akkadian
being itself a rather "decayed" form of Semitic.
Most cuneiforms have more than one reading.
Arnaud
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Yes, it is a challenging field of study.
 
 
Patrick
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