[creekster]

Originally Posted by Archaea

as I was looking at the differences between Syriac and Aramaic. Interestingly, Syriac is in some instances the same thing.

It is a Semitic language with triliteral roots, but it has tense, which most Semitic languages do not, and a verb conjunctive, standard state, intensive state and extensive state. The script is Arabic related and was highly spoken until the eighth century when Arabic supplanted it.

So I find a language subgroup which I've never even heard of, it's in the Afro-Asiatic languages, called the Omotic languages, mostly in Ethiopia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omotic_languages

Like most people, I only mock things I don't understand. Don't be so sensitive. Think of me as the guy with the pitchfork and torch chasing Frankenstein's monster.