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almost as if

nevermind

Almost as if what? If you have something substantive to say, say it.

It's not a secret that Hebrew and Arabic share a common ancestor, and that the languages are related. It's also not a secret that Arabic played significant role in Jewish history, some very meaningful works of Jewish literature were originally written in Arabic before being translated to Hebrew.

I'm really not sure what you were trying to get at with your cryptic comment.

just to clarify what you said, Hebrew and Arabic languages have a common ancestor, but also Hebrew and Arabic writing also have a common answer. It's something of a rule of thumb that languages are spoken (most people for most of history were fluent and illiterate) and languages are not writing systems, although for many extinct languages the writing is all we have to go on.

lots of semites deny the idea of millennia of crossdrift amongst semitic communities, culturally, genetically, linguistically, never really thinking about it, including perhaps font choices. I see it all day every day, I can give examples if that’s an absurdity in your world

it was the substantive thing to say, I’m glad you got it and my comment prompted your inference, I wouldn’t have wanted to be responsible for pointing out that solved mystery

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