Hogwash Richard. I'm beginning to think Piotr was correct in leaving.
You are merely making excuses rather than answering the questions
presented. Recent studies using fMRI to graph scholars reading
Mandarin pictographs have shown access by both the left and right
brain lobes. Supposedly English only utilizes the left brain.
That's the direction I'm headed. Your information is worthless.

Gerry

--- 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.