Re: Supposed Celtic semiticisms

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:54:46 +0100, damien perrotin
<erwan.arskoul@...> wrote:
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> Skrivet gant Ray Brown:
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> The problem is that most of these features are recent developements
> which are not shared by ancient celtic languages.
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I don't think Ray is implying these are "ancient from waaaaaaaaaaay
back when". I think it illustrates the fact that Semitic and Celtic
languages share *now* similar features which could lead one, without
careful study to think the groups were related.


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