Comments on: Dion, Paul-E., “The language Spoken in Ancient Sam’al,” JNES 37/2, Colloquium on Aramaic Studies (April 1978): 115-118

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:03:04 +0000

You know, when I was looking up Sam’alian I completely forgot that you had just talked about it in your review of Garr. I knew something was nagging at me that it was related to Aramaic. I really need to read that book some time . . .

By: Peter Bekins

Peter Bekins — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:38:12 +0000

You know, its kind of funny. I became interested in Sam’ailan after Garr described it as a language island. I had downloaded this article by Dion at some time in the past, so I wrote up a summary last week, but then I thought, “Who really cares to read about Sam’alian?”. So I didn’t post it. Who would have thought a new inscription would be found.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:25:02 +0000

Thanks for this. I admit that when the news about the inscription broke, I had to look up Sam’alian to figure out where it fit among the NWS languages . . .