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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Supercar: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by x-tremely retarded breed: Bottom line, the Sabaean presence was restricted to a few outposts and wasn't widespread and Sabaean and Ethiopic scripts appear almost simultaneously, so there's no evidence that the Ethiopic script evovled from the Sabaean one. [/QUOTE]So, babbling x-tremely retarded breed, how do you address this point: Ayele Bekerie (AB) makes a number of assertions about the history of the Ethiopic script that are less than accurate. In his zeal to deny any South Arabian influence on the beginnings of Ethiopian (Aksumite) civilization, he makes the claim that the monumental South Arabian script is a development from (an early form of?) the Ethiopic. At the same time, he claims that one of the "issues" of Ethiopic studies "for future scholarly investigation" is, "What is the significance of having more than one syllograph for some of the phonemes in the Ethiopic writing system?" (p. 148). This is not at all an issue requiring investigation; it is a simple fact that the [b]script underlying the Ethiopic was devised for a language richer in consonants than Ge`ez[/b]; when some of the [b]consonantal phonemes[/b] (laryngeals, sibilants) merged [b]in Ge`ez[/b], the [b]letters for them were retained in the script even though the scribes could not know from the sound of a word which letter to write it with.[/b] Only the investigation of Semitic etymologies makes it possible for lexicographers to catalogue words with the historically appropriate spellings. If, conversely, the South Arabian script derived from the Ethiopic, [b]there is no way the homophonous letters could have been consistently assigned to the etymologically appropriate sounds.[/b] - P. T. Daniels [QUOTE]Originally posted by X-tremely retarded Breed: Supertroll still doesn't understand, did you forget that piece from Curtis I posted?[/QUOTE]Did you not read the entirety of the post, I suggested you read in response to it, dumb trolling pussy. [QUOTE]x-tremely retarded breed says: There is no denying that Sabaeans were in Ethiopia and or that their wreiting appears in Ethiopia, the question is whether the Ethiopic script developed from the sabaean script and you have posted no evidence for this so stop trolling, moron.[/QUOTE]dumb pussy, how about addressing the post above. [QUOTE]x-tremely retarded breed: Munro-Hay is talking about two separate migrations of sabaeans into Ethiopia, not one, learn to read. [/QUOTE]Well, my pansy buddy, you could have fooled me, as to who needs to learn how to read, after making unfounded and uneducated accusations about someone's notes, without having a clue about anything that was said. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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