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Egyptian and semitic.
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Azvarohi Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 5877 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English	Message 1 of 2 22 October 2008 at 5:38pm \| IP Logged
	Hi! According to Wikipedia the egyptian language (not the arabic dialect now!) share many morpological features with semitic languages, I wonder if there are any similarities when looking at the vocabulary? Basically what I´m looking for is an Egypto-Semitic group (similar to the Italo-Celtic hypothesis) is probable and then split into egyptian and semitic? Any good modern articles or books about the subject? Cheers! 1 person has voted this message useful
rabyte Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 6030 days ago 44 posts - 46 votes Speaks: German*, English, French Studies: Spanish, Hindi	Message 2 of 2 23 October 2008 at 3:26am \| IP Logged
	Egyptian and the Semitic languages all seem to belong to the Afro-Asiatic language family. Therefor one can find similarities in vocabulary and especially in grammar. My knowledge of Egyptian and Arabic is quite weak but myself I did not notice these simmilarities when studying the Hieroglyphs. However I consulted Wikipedia (as usual :)) and found this interesting article about Afro-Asiatic (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afroasiatische_Sprachen). The German version seems to be more en detail and also gives you some examples like: English \| Proto-AA \| Arabic \| Accadic \| Egyptian \| Berber to die \| -maaw \| māta \| mâtu \| mwt \| əmmət to be wet \| -m- \| māʾ(water ) \| mû (water) \| mw (pl) \| aman (water) Reading the Wiki article about the Egyptian language, I also noticed a book about your theory 'Egyptian as a Semitic language'. It seems to be just one chapter inside another book (unfortunately only available in German either I guess): Otto Rössler: Ägyptisch als Semitische Sprache, in: Franz Altheim, Ruth Stiehl: Christentum am Roten Meer, Band 1 De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1971, S. 263-326 ISBN 3-11-003790-4 Maybe this will help you Edited by rabyte on 23 October 2008 at 3:32am 1 person has voted this message useful

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