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Was There Hebrew Language in Ancient America? An Interview with Brian Stubbs
Title | Was There Hebrew Language in Ancient America? An Interview with Brian Stubbs |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2000 |
Authors | Stubbs, Brian D., and John L. Sorenson |
Journal | Journal of Book of Mormon Studies |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 54-63, 83 |
Keywords | Ancient Near East; Language; Linguistics; Mesoamerica |
Abstract | In an interview with John L. Sorenson, linguist Brian Stubbs discusses the evidence he has used to establish that at least one language family in Mesoamerica is related to Semitic languages. Stubbs explains how his studies of Near Eastern languages, coupled with his studies of Uto-Aztecan, helped him find related word pairs in the two language families. The evidence for a link between Uto-Aztecan and Semitic languages, or even Egyptian or Arabic, is still tentative, although the evidence includes all the standard requirements of comparative or historical linguistic research: sound correspondences or consistent sound shifts, morphological correspondences, and a substantial lexicon consisting of as many as 1,000 words that exemplify those correspondences. |
URL | https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol9/iss2/9 |
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