Re: Abujidas

From: "Gerry"
To: <Nostratica@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:25 PM
Subject: [Nostratica] Re: Abujidas (was: Origin of the Sumerian language)

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

I should have said Arabic was writen in a modified Aramaic script. Which
style of Arabic script and which style of Hebrew script are you talking
about? To me, the printed forms bear no immediate, obvious cursory
relationship, particularly not the one you are referring to.

Richard.