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habarakhe4 wrote: > Is there a path by which a Semitic or Semitic-patterned language could change away from the > holding pattern? I would suggest that an ATL Punic or Galilaean Hebrew could have moved in > that direction. I am under impression that nouns in Modern Hebrew have lost much of connection with the typical triconsonant root structure. But the verbs still rely on the triconsonant root pattern very much. The other Semitic languages seem to preserve consonant root structure as a very typical feature. To say nothing about lexical borrowings from European languages in Maltese :) -- Yitzik