Shalom,

I'd just like to address some of the points stated on your pages about Edenics.

Firstly, it's well known amongst Semitists that the Hebrew language is an 
'evolved' language, and that it has lost much of the original proto-Semitic 
features, which we find present in other languages, especially Ugaritic and 
Arabic.

The first issue is that of phonology, the Hebrew language has lost many of the 
original Semitic sounds such as thaa (merged into shin) and thal (merged into 
zayn) and ghayin (merged into ayin) and Haa (merged into Khaa) etc.

So for instance in your page about animal names, you mention that Aramaic 
corrupts the Hebrew shin into taa, whereas in reality both Hebrew and Aramaic 
merge (corrupt is not a nice word in comparative linguistics) the original 
Semitic thaa into other letters. Hebrew merges thaa into shin and Aramaic 
merges thaa into taa. Since both Arabic and Ugaritic retain the original thaa 
phoneme, we find they both use this same letter for ox (th-r in Ugaritic and 
thor in Arabic, the middle vowel unknown for Ugaritic).

We find this phenomenon even causes entirely different words to be merged into 
one word in Hebrew, so for instance the Semitic root for plow is H-r-th. So in 
Ugaritic we have H-r-th, in Arabic Haratha, whilst in Hebrew we have Kharash 
(the Haa has merged into Khaa and the thaa has merged into shin). But wait, 
Hebrew has two meanings for the root Kharash, the other meaning is to be 
silent. This is because there's another Semitic root Kh-r-s which means to be 
silent. In Hebrew sin and shin have also switched places, so we have in Hebrew 
Kharash for being silent also, which in Arabic is Kharasa.

The second issue is that of grammar. The Hebrew language has almost completely 
lost the case system, which only remains in vestiges of some words. Arabic is 
the only surviving Semitic language which still retains the proto-Semitic case 
system. Likewise for the dual number, which all Semitic languages lost, except 
for Arabic and Ugaritic again. Only in certain natural-pair nouns do dual cases 
exist in Hebrew. Although some linguists have shown that in the earlier parts 
of the Tanakh it's quite possible that some of the verbs still retained the 
dual, but have been mistaken for plurals.

This is not to say Ugaritic and Arabic are perfect languages, they are not, 
Ugaritic merged sod/dod (as did Hebrew, but Arabic did not) and sin/shin, 
whilst Arabic merged sin/samek, whilst Biblical Hebrew and Ugaritic did not, 
although modern Hebrew did (phonetically anyway, the separate graphemes still 
exist).

But if the claim is to be made that Hebrew was the first language, then Arabic 
and Ugaritic must have been prior to first, obviously a logical impossibility :)

Comments welcomed.

Regards,
Abu Rashid.

Note: letter names used are mostly Arabic, since Hebrew has no name for most of 
them.

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