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  1. 12-11-2008, 16:47 #3
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    Default Re: Sab'yn Status

    Quote Originally Posted by Elmetiacos View Post
    I was told a while ago that nobody was currently working on this faction for EB or EB2 and hence the team had had to put in Greek or Hebrew names as placeholders for some units. While surfing for information on Hamitic/Celtic syntactical similarities for another thread, I happened upon this website with its large database: http://starling.rinet.ru/index2.php?lan=en which includes Epigraphic South Arabian. There are words like 'FRS.N for "horsemen" GYS2 for "army unit, detachment" which could be used to get reasonable approximations of Sabaean unit names... or is this already being done?
    they sound very familiar to me: the first is like fursān, and the second like jaish.


    It just donned on me: why didn't EB use Arabic as a placeholder? (up until Elmetiacos found this)

    EDIT: what has hamitic to do with Celtic (beside maybe a few loanwords)? and how do I find the dictionary you decribe in the website(Epigraphic S. Arabian)?

    EDIT: never mind-got it.
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