From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 51595
Date: 2008-01-20
----- Original Message -----From: fournet.arnaudSent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 5:39 AMSubject: Re: Re: Re: [tied] Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)
----- Original Message -----From: Patrick RyanSent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:23 AMSubject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: Re: [tied] Re: PIE-Arabic Correspondences (was Brugmann's Law)
<snip>============ ========= ====Our Egyptian sources are also well developed so that it is often possible to match Egyptian and Arabic words.========Very few people work on the connection between Coptic and Egyptianwhich is the first step *before* anything else.***Coptic is important. I studied Coptic at the Oriental Institute.Where have you studied anything, Arnaud?***============ =Of course, I add Sumerian, which gives us some insight into the original vowels.Patrick==========Sumerian is written in an awkward systemwhose reconstruction is based on Akkadianbeing itself a rather "decayed" form of Semitic.Most cuneiforms have more than one reading.Arnaud============ ========= ======***Yes, it is a challenging field of study.Patrick***
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