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Re:Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines by slim on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:54PM (#31633796)
Rome is guilty of that as well. When they invented latin, they transliterated greec lettet Phi to the letter P
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Re:Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines by matrix12 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:56PM (#31633821)
And the Punic, Punicians who spoke a "Hebrew" when invading with Elephants.
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Re:Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines by coliveira on Sunday June 05, 2022 @05:05PM (#31634855)
It's the other way around, hebrew is just a derivative of the language spoken by the Phoenicians, also closely related to the Aramaic that became the common language over that whole area. Hebrew was, for a long time, just a cerimonial language used by the jewish religion.
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Re:Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines by kurupt213 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:53PM (#31634283)
Hebrew was just one of many Semitic languages.
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Re:Ancient DNA may reveal origin of the Philistines by matrix12 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @07:53PM (#31635946)
Except they were essentially the same language, and an alphabet. Unlike say Eblaite.
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