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kittikitti ◴[17 Jan 25 18:01 UTC] No.42741252[source]▶

The article states, "symbols on the cylinders could be an early Semitic alphabet" and this is when they lost me. I guess we're just pushing propaganda now.

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1. jowday ◴[17 Jan 25 18:03 UTC] No.42741279[source]▶

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That’s common parlance in archeology for ancient languages in that region.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Semitic-speaking_peo...

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2. jonstewart ◴[17 Jan 25 18:08 UTC] No.42741386[source]▶

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And in linguistics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages

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3. thaumasiotes ◴[17 Jan 25 19:55 UTC] No.42742558[source]▶

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It's not specialized at all; "Semitic" is the only word for this concept used in English.

In German they still talk about Hamito-Semitic languages, but we call those Afroasiatic now.

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A UC Santa Cruz professor unearthed the oldest alphabet yet