Otto Stolz wrote at 5:13 PM on Thursday, May 27, 2004: >I think that the case of old Phoenician vs. Hebrew is different, as >there is no underlying common language and orthography...
Phoenician, Old Hebrew, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite are dialects of the same language, with the major orthographical difference being that Phoenician did not re-employ any of the consonants as vowel letters (although later Phoenician, Neo-Punic, did). Respectfully, Dean A. Snyder Assistant Research Scholar Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project Computer Science Department Whiting School of Engineering 218C New Engineering Building 3400 North Charles Street Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218 office: 410 516-6850 cell: 717 817-4897 www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
