From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 17:34:35 CDT
Otto Stolz wrote at 5:13 PM on Thursday, May 27, 2004:
>I think that the case of old Phoenician vs. Hebrew is different, as
>there is no underlying common language and orthography...
Phoenician, Old Hebrew, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite are dialects of the
same language, with the major orthographical difference being that
Phoenician did not re-employ any of the consonants as vowel letters
(although later Phoenician, Neo-Punic, did).
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
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Johns Hopkins University
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