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“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

“Judaean Aramaic is in no sense a mixture of Hebrew and Syriac.”

— James John Courtenay

“Palmyrene and Nabataean dialects, which use an Aramaic script ... in the opinion of some experts might really be dialects of Arabic.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Aramaic spoken in 500 B.C. from Babylon in the north to Assuan in the south of Egypt was identical with what has been popularly…

— James John Courtenay

“... 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

“Phonologically, the langauge of Qumran represents a period of transition and fluctuation, during which, as is true of other texts from this time, Aramaic…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“H. Bauer ... was already arguing that some elements of Hebrew, such as the consecutive tenses, had a close relationship with Akkadian.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Aramaic did not come into Palestine until after the Babylonian-Assyrian conquest of the country.”

— James John Courtenay

“Syriac is a later development of Aramaic.”

— James John Courtenay

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

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“... before the first millennium BCE one cannot speak of a contrast between Canaanite and Aramaic, but rather a group of languages with various…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“A comparative study will lead to the conclusion that the Phoenician, Aramaic and Greek alphabets were developed from one original.”

— James John Courtenay