Quote by Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“In morphology, the (synchronic) study of the compatibility of consonants within Semitic triconsonantal root ... has been conducted with great precision in various modern…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“For the understanding of primitive Semitic vowel-sounds a study of Arabic is almost indispensable.”

— James John Courtenay

“Some of the more outstanding features of Ugaritic are its preservation of most of the Proto-Semitic consonantal phonemes.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“In Hebrew and Aramaic the vowels have undergone vast modifications, whilst in Arabic they have retained to a large extent their primitive purity and…

— James John Courtenay

“The Proto-Canaanite ... seems to have employed 27 different characters. The Ugaritic alphabet from around the 14th century BCE uses 30 characters ... Phoenician…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Assyrian more than Hebrew preserved the simplicity of the vowels, but in the matter of consonants was more akin to Phoenician and Hebrew; Arabic…

— James John Courtenay

“It is found that the Egyptian language has an appreciable admixture of Semitic, which was derived ultimately from Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

“The history of alphabetic writing goes back to the consonantal writing system used for Semitic languages in the Levant in the 2nd millennium B.C.…

— Sampson Geoffrey

“... before the tenth century Hebrew writing, like Phoenician, was purely consonantal, and it was halfway though the ninth century BCE, under the influence…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Thus, 'Proto-Semitic' is more a postulate or linguistic convention than an actual ancient language spoken by a recognizable group.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Most words in the Semitic languages can be completely defined in terms of root and pattern.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“In any Semitic study, Arabic is a most useful adjunct, inasmuch as it often indicates the true significance of words where the Hebrew, Syriac…

— James John Courtenay