Re: Assyrian character
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 28, 2002, 10:52 |
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Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> Would a Persian diplomat be likely to use any version of the Hebrew
> alphabet? (Or, we should presumeably say, the Hebrew abjad, in deference to
> the ongoing discussions of various classes of writing systems.)
Not inconceivable. Aramaic was the lingua franca of the entire area.
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