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--- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@hidden.email> wrote: > Rodlox R wrote: > > > > if I may ask, as an Idea bug has bitten me, > > conlang or otherwise, are > > there any Anglo-Semitic patterns? > > Not that I know. England has never been under > serious Muslim influence. > Maybe only in lectures about Islam you can find > enough specific terms as > lexical borrowings. But surely not on the > structural level, as it is with > Farsi. > As for Yiddish, it is a Jewish language, so > there is no wonder it has strong > Hebrew influence, even though it is Germanic by > origin. Yiddish is certainly a Germanic-Semitic language (its Semitic member being, as you say, Hebrew). It is spoken here in the USA, but I have no idea how much influence English has had on Yiddish. Yiddish has c�rtainly had a lexical effect on English. Certain grammatical affectations (especially among Jews and their associates) could probably be traced to Yiddish. So, NYC is where I'd look for an Anglo-Semitic pattern to emerge in a conlang project. Padraic. > -- Yitzik That was the end of the woman in the woods, Weela Weela wallia And that was the end of her bawbee too Down by the river Sallia The moral of this story is, Weela weela wallia; Don't stick knives in baby's heads Down by the river Sallia. -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.bethisad.com> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .