At 03:54 AM 11/3/2003 -0500, Jon Murphy wrote: >Actually Hebrew (and Arabic and Aramaic) are in the family of Indo-European >languages.
Sorry, no. I speak as a former linguistics major. >Sanskrit is one of the bases, but the differences in sound of the >Semitic languages are minimal when compared to the similarities. Having studied French, German, Russian, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, I beg to differ. >As I >remember my linguistics only Basque and Finnish are languages west of the >Caucasian Mountains that aren't in the family. Also Hungarian and Lappish, which along with Finnish belong to the Finno-Ugric family. The other speakers are tribal peoples from east of the Ural mountains. Caroline ********************************* Caroline Usher DCMB Administrative Coordinator 613-8155 Box 91000
