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**Moros** · 01-29-2009, 22:28

Originally Posted by Ibrahim

just as mine did as well. I can restart the effirt at full throttle.

I'll get the nouns and verb stems done. are you going to your library? you can use it to collect the pronouns, prepositions, and grammatical stuff.

I'm gonna look up grammar books and the likes on Semetic languages and Sabaic. And try to find as much as possible, not sure how much that's going to be though. But as they also teach Aramaic, Akkadian and similar languages at my uni, there must be books about it. Probably gonna do Aramaic myself next year so.

**Moros** · 01-29-2009, 22:43

After doing some searches I've found a Sabaic dictionary. I've also got that book we talked about, describing semetic languages

**Ibrahim** · 01-29-2009, 23:02

Originally Posted by Moros

After doing some searches I've found a Sabaic dictionary. I've also got that book we talked about, describing semetic languages

can you scan the former?

If so, may, you send copies of the scan to me?

**Moros** · 01-30-2009, 05:02

Sure.

**Moros** · 01-30-2009, 16:22

Okay just spend the last 4 hours reading a dictionary. And yes it's as boring as it sounds. Got to page 103, but now I'm truely fed up. It made a nice list though, which I'll share after doing a proper transliteration. Also you cant believe how many words they have for destroying things, for dams and for camels.

**Ibrahim** · 01-31-2009, 23:36

Originally Posted by Moros

Okay just spend the last 4 hours reading a dictionary. And yes it's as boring as it sounds. Got to page 103, but now I'm truely fed up. It made a nice list though, which I'll share after doing a proper transliteration. Also you cant believe how many words they have for destroying things, for dams and for camels.

well, arabic has 3-4 dozen words for camel: jamal, ibil, naaqah, thaniyya, baazil, and the list goes on...
in fact, Arabic has more words for camel than the inuits have for snow.

well, I'll be waiting..

**desert** · 01-31-2009, 23:50

Well, the Inuits never did have many words for snow.

But 3-4 dozen is a lot.

**Moros** · 02-01-2009, 00:21

Originally Posted by Ibrahim

well, arabic has 3-4 dozen words for camel: jamal, ibil, naaqah, thaniyya, baazil, and the list goes on...
in fact, Arabic has more words for camel than the inuits have for snow.

well, I'll be waiting..

How did you do them backwards '?'-like symbols. I'm temporarly using brackets instead of them '(' or ')'. I'm gonna make the list in the Sabaic alphabet followed by a transscripted version and followed by a more readible sort of transcirption/phonetic. (possibly with vowels)

Any suggestions on doing the latter? Also I'm using Sabaean44.ttf for sabaic, you can download it for free. (use google).