Posted by Lilly from ? (160.129.27.22) on Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 11:25AM :
In Reply to: Assyrian vs Christian posted by panch from customer-148-233-78-77.uninet.net.mx (148.233.78.77) on Friday, September 20, 2002 at 1:28PM :
He says that there are certain Iraqi Arabic words that are not Arabic or Aramaic in origin, & must be from the Sumerian/Akkadian days... That the Arabic dialect in Iraq is unique to Iraq suggests that these people are descendent from an original, older people with a unique language that has influenced the modern tongue, because language, among other things, is inherited. Of course, no one is a "purebred." That's impossible. Even our ancestors weren't purebred - they mingled a lot, most likely because their cultures were more tolerant of each other.
-- Lilly
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