From: Torsten
Message: 66923
Date: 2010-12-03
>http://tinyurl.com/2wf7nbp
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "piervantrink" <piervantrink@> wrote:
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> > 10/The Arabianic character of IE languages
> > http://anthrocivitas.net/forum/showthread.php?p=68091#post68091
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> > There is an Arabic dictionnary written in the 13 th century wich is the compilation of older Arabic dictionnaries but whereas those older Arabic dictionnaries do contain as much as 2 mln words, this dictionnary called "lisan al 3arab" does contain more than 5,5 mln words and searching in it I did found around 460 out of around 550 proto Indo-European roots (wich is the total number of Indo-European roots and could be found in wiktionnary) with around 200 Arabic roots that do have identical phonetics and semantics than the Indo-European ones and the other being very similar with rather strict semantics and phonetics.
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> That's a lot of words seeing as there are only 614,656 words 4 consonants long. However, 5.5 million words is a combination of a great many authors' vocabularies, and is hardly likely to be a meaningful indication of what was in Proto-Semitic.
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> Would you please explain your 460 out of 500 and 200. Examples of each category of root or pair of roots would be helpful in explaining what you mean.
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