--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard@...> wrote:

> Greek, Arabic and Hebrew are three different languages. Greek is

written in

> a heavily modified Phoenician script, e.g. by consisently using

some letters

> as vowels (Different versions of the same letter (waw) were used

for /w/

> (digamma) and /u/ (upsilon)).
>
> Hebrew was written in Phoenician script but then switched to the

Aramaic

> script.
>
> Arabic is written in Aramaic script with six extra letters. In the

modern

> form, these appear to have been made by adding a dot above the old

letter.

This is most enlightening. Hebrew, as you state, began as a
Phoenician script (like Greek) but then changed to Aramaic script.
Yet both Hebrew and Arabic (although written in Aramaic) script look
like mirror images, one a reversal of the other. Please explain.

Gerry