11-02-2004, 09:21 PM
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the Lebanese taught the Greeks to read 1,000 years before Arabic finally became written down.
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Really do tell! Were the Lebanese at this Phoenician? I think I heard that Phoenician alphabet was the common denominator to both the Greek and the Hebrew and Aramaic script. As far as some of the common denominators of alpha/ alap, beta/bet etc.
the Lebanese taught the Greeks to read 1,000 years before Arabic finally became written down.
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Really do tell! Were the Lebanese at this Phoenician? I think I heard that Phoenician alphabet was the common denominator to both the Greek and the Hebrew and Aramaic script. As far as some of the common denominators of alpha/ alap, beta/bet etc.