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Day: September 3, 2016

What are some similarities and common things that Greek has with Arabic?

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Posted in categories: Linguistics, Modern Greek, Other Languages

Commonalities between Greek and Arabic? They belong to different language families—Indo-European vs Afro-Asiatic (which includes the Semitic languages, which also includes Hebrew and Phoenecian); noone has proven a more distant relation between the two. The alphabet of both derives from Phoenecian; hence the similarity in letter names to this day. That also extends to Hebrew: […]