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size=2>From: Zev Sero <A
href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</A><BR><BR>> "There are
inscriptions that evidence the earliest use of the language,<BR>> dating from
the tenth century BCE.[--RYG]<BR><BR>That late, huh? So what did Lavan
speak?<BR><BR>-- <BR>Zev
Sero
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<DIV>Lavan spoke whatever language was spoken in Aram Naharaim in his day.
It was "Aramaic" in the same sense that the language then spoken by the
Egyptians was "Egyptian" -- and we know that language was not Arabic.
Lavan's Aramaic may have been a Semitic language but it seems to me that we have
no way of knowing that one way or another. Maybe someone here can clarify
that point, too.</DIV>
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<DIV>What does "Yagar Sahadusa" mean, anyway? In Talmudic Aramaic, does it
mean anything?</DIV>
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<DIV>In Canaan of Avraham's day they definitely spoke [a] Semitic language[s],
and extant inscriptions prove that, e.g., Akkadian was virtually identical to
Biblical Hebrew.</DIV>
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<DIV>--Toby Katz</DIV>
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