01-19-2008, 05:12 PM
shlom lokh oH yaaqub,
Ancient Hebrew as a language is a dialect of Canaanite (AKA Phoenician), with heavy Aramaic influence. So it is not surprising that same words might have different spelling, or even be spelled in reverse order from the Aramaic.
Here's an example that I gave a website that deals with the Canaanite topics (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.phoenicia.org/">http://www.phoenicia.org/</a><!-- m -->), where I show a comparison between the Canaanite and the Aramaic (using Syriac script; notice the nun and rish in some words):
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.beith-morounoye.org/special/example.PDF">http://www.beith-morounoye.org/special/example.PDF</a><!-- m -->
push bashlomo,
keefa-morun
Ancient Hebrew as a language is a dialect of Canaanite (AKA Phoenician), with heavy Aramaic influence. So it is not surprising that same words might have different spelling, or even be spelled in reverse order from the Aramaic.
Here's an example that I gave a website that deals with the Canaanite topics (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.phoenicia.org/">http://www.phoenicia.org/</a><!-- m -->), where I show a comparison between the Canaanite and the Aramaic (using Syriac script; notice the nun and rish in some words):
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.beith-morounoye.org/special/example.PDF">http://www.beith-morounoye.org/special/example.PDF</a><!-- m -->
push bashlomo,
keefa-morun