A Dangerous Amount of Knowledge

Aug 24, 2010 14:32

Heh. Knowing only the tiniest amounts of information about Semitic morphology still opens huge portals for comprehension.

Semitic languages have (canonically) roots made up of three consonants, fleshed out into words by the application of a template. Islam, muslim, and salaam all have the same triconsonantal root s-l-m (approximately "peace"), ( Read more... )

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drelmo August 24 2010, 19:33:43 UTC
Maltese.

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