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    ok,then i have a question that my studies did not solve,I studied the Basque language for a long time and I wanted to if the word ezker was linked to Spanish izquierda,co's it's so similar and because I didn't get the time to check.
    I found it!....on...wikipedia!(crap,i must be blind then!)they say
    "The Romance languages of Gascon, Aragonese, and Spanish display marked Basque influence, as a result of substratum, language contact, and bilingualism. A notable example is that of the Pyrenean and Iberian Romance words for "left (side)" (izquierdo, esquerdo, esquerre, quer, esquer) derived from Basque ezker[15] to avoid the ominous connotations of Latin sinister."

    How could I not've spotted this?

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    "Allah" was formed from the gemination of the "l"s in al-ilah, "the god." The semitic root would be ylh or lh.

    In Semitic languages, there is a system of roots which can be used to form new words, this has been happening for a long time. Foreign words are easily incorporated with this system. Take the root k-t-b, which conveys the idea of writing. A very small sample of the many words in Arabic that are derived from this root.

    kitab - book
    kātib - writer (m)
    kataba - to write
    kutayyib - booklet
    takātaba - to correspond
    maktab - office
    maktaba - library
    miktāb - typewriter
    maktūb - written

    And a small sample of the Hebrew words derived from the same k-t-b root.

    katab - reporter (m)
    ktib - spelling
    katub - written
    ktab - handwriting

    It is even seen in Maltese, the only Semtic language to use the Latin Alphabet as the primary alphabet

    ktieb - book
    kittieb - writer
    miktub - written

    A good EB example is the root q-d-$, meaning "holy/sacred." In Punic, "sh" becomes "s," so we have HaParasim HaQdosim (Sacred Band Cavalry). The same root is seen in Hebrew "Miqdash," as in HaBeit HaMiqdash, which literally translates as "The House [of] The Temple." Notice the pattern of adding "mi" or "ma" to the front of a root to get a building/object from an idea.

    So we have the root s-g-d, "worship, bow." By adding "ma-" to the front we get Aramaic "Masgid," "place of worship," and Arabic "Masjid," meaning "mosque," most likely derived from an Aramaic dialect, likely Nabataean. And d-r-s, the root for "learn" is seen in Arabic "madrasa," "school."
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    Quote Originally Posted by gamegeek2 View Post
    "Allah" was formed from the gemination of the "l"s in al-ilah, "the god." The semitic root would be ylh or lh.

    In Semitic languages, there is a system of roots which can be used to form new words, this has been happening for a long time. Foreign words are easily incorporated with this system. Take the root k-t-b, which conveys the idea of writing. A very small sample of the many words in Arabic that are derived from this root.

    kitab - book
    kātib - writer (m)
    kataba - to write
    kutayyib - booklet
    takātaba - to correspond
    maktab - office
    maktaba - library
    miktāb - typewriter
    maktūb - written

    And a small sample of the Hebrew words derived from the same k-t-b root.

    katab - reporter (m)
    ktib - spelling
    katub - written
    ktab - handwriting

    It is even seen in Maltese, the only Semtic language to use the Latin Alphabet as the primary alphabet

    ktieb - book
    kittieb - writer
    miktub - written

    A good EB example is the root q-d-$, meaning "holy/sacred." In Punic, "sh" becomes "s," so we have HaParasim HaQdosim (Sacred Band Cavalry). The same root is seen in Hebrew "Miqdash," as in HaBeit HaMiqdash, which literally translates as "The House [of] The Temple." Notice the pattern of adding "mi" or "ma" to the front of a root to get a building/object from an idea.

    So we have the root s-g-d, "worship, bow." By adding "ma-" to the front we get Aramaic "Masgid," "place of worship," and Arabic "Masjid," meaning "mosque," most likely derived from an Aramaic dialect, likely Nabataean. And d-r-s, the root for "learn" is seen in Arabic "madrasa," "school."

    just to add: Maltese is decended from a variety of Arabic releted to Siculo-Arabic (arabic in Sicily).

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    It is descended from [Maghrebi] Arabic, this is seen by -in as one of many plurals (also seen in Arabic), as opposed to normal Semitic -im. However, genetic studies comparing the Maltese people with the Lebanese show overwhelming similarity (the Phoenicians were from around Lebanon)
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    Wow, absolutely fascinating, I've always really loved languages, and their origins. This makes me really look forward to College now (I plan to minor in linguistics), but yeah, keep going!
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    Thanks.
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    Hopeless Case Languages

    1. Getic (Thracian, Dacian, Daco-Thracian...)
    What can we get from Duridanov - http://www.kroraina.com/thrac_lang/thrac_1.html ?
    We've got some words recorded in Greek or Latin, but a lot are names for plants, which obviously aren't much use. Midne means a village. There's a village called Poltymbria from which Duridanov derives *poltyn- meaning a wooden fortification. Skalme means a sword. The Thracian nobles are called the Zibythides. There's the tribal name Satrai which is possibly related to Sanskrit and Persian ksat(h)ra and means power or authority, a form of government? There's also the personal name Taruthin/Tarusinas/Tarutinos which apparently meaning "holding a spear" - pluralise that and it's a ready made unit name. But how? All the names are given Greek or Roman dress; there doesn't seem to be any grammar discernable. Thracian inscriptions are very thin on the ground indeed and there are none in Dacian. The longest is from Kjolmen, written in the Greek alphabet. It says:
    ILASNLETEDNLEDNENIDAKATROSO
    EBA.ROZESASNÊNETESAIGEKOA
    NBLABAÊGN
    To which I'm forced to say WTF?!
    P.Dimitrov (http://www.nbu.bg/PUBLIC/IMAGES/File...13_01_2009.pdf) suggests NBLABÊGN is copied from a Greek formula and means "do not damage/destroy (this inscription)" ASN(E) means "whoever", -e endings are probably genitives and IGEKOA could be a perfect tense before basically giving up after getting il asn' leted n'led ne ni dakatroso Evaroze sas nê n'etesa igekoa - and you can't blame him.
    Back to Duridanov, who translates the name Dentusucu/Dentusykos/Dentysykos as "daughter of the clan" which suggests that you might have a nominative ending in -u. But if that's right, why are the Greek forms masculine? Does Thracian have no grammatical gender, like Armenian?
    We've only got conjectural words:
    bredas - pasture
    bur - man
    diza - fortress
    mezena - horseman
    rezas - king
    rumba-anga? "curved blade" > rhompaia, falx
    skaplis - axe
    taru - spear
    taruthin - spearman

    We can only guess at how plurals were formed, but if we guess at the usual Indo-European sorts of endings we'd have the following unit names, assuming -n- is somehow agentive:

    mezenas - generic horsemen
    taruthinai - generic spearmen
    sklapenai - axemen
    rumbanganai - falxmen
    zibuthizas - noble cavalry
    bres skalmana - shortswordsmen (I'm pushing it now...)
    kikanas - skirmishers (tribal name Cicones is said to mean "the quick people")

    Building-wise, with no words for temple, it might be necessary to borrow Phrygian kavar "sacred site" and iman "idol" with more made up inflections for deity names. I was quite confident about a reconstructed Getic naming language when I started writing this. Now... meh.
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