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To: Sabramerican
"All successive alphabets in the ancient world, including the Greek one, derive from this ancestor at Tel Zayit," he said.

As I understand, the Greek alphabet descends from the Phoenician, not the Hebrew, so the Greek and the Hebrew would be more sister alphabets than mother/daughter.

9 posted on 11/09/2005 11:17:16 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

Greek alphabet descended from hebrew alphabet.

That is a known fact. It was Hebrews that had extensive contact with greek, not phoenicians.


11 posted on 11/09/2005 11:54:59 AM PST by S0122017
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