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<p>[QUOTE="7Calbrey, post: 2392130, member: 38412"]@ C89. The 3 letters of Baal, read from right to left, are likely to be ancient Hebrew or Phoenician. I noticed this from the list of Alphabets you provided to us at the beginning of this thread. The two Phoenician and Ancient Hebrew Alphabets seem to be too similar ( almost the same). Now, the Phoenicians had no vowels. Reading from right to left, the first letter is Beth ( B) then Ayin ( O) then Lamed (L). So the only enigma is in the middle letter Ayin which is a consonant and not the vowel O that we know. It's typically Semitic and it only exists now in both the Hebrew and Arabic languages. We don't pronounce in our Latin Alphabet, nor even the Greek.</p><p>Finally..those 3 letters are BAAL . The 2 AA in the middle are replacing the Semitic consonant Ayin. Sorry for this complicated but necessary explanation. LOL..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="7Calbrey, post: 2392130, member: 38412"]@ C89. The 3 letters of Baal, read from right to left, are likely to be ancient Hebrew or Phoenician. I noticed this from the list of Alphabets you provided to us at the beginning of this thread. The two Phoenician and Ancient Hebrew Alphabets seem to be too similar ( almost the same). Now, the Phoenicians had no vowels. Reading from right to left, the first letter is Beth ( B) then Ayin ( O) then Lamed (L). So the only enigma is in the middle letter Ayin which is a consonant and not the vowel O that we know. It's typically Semitic and it only exists now in both the Hebrew and Arabic languages. We don't pronounce in our Latin Alphabet, nor even the Greek. Finally..those 3 letters are BAAL . The 2 AA in the middle are replacing the Semitic consonant Ayin. Sorry for this complicated but necessary explanation. LOL..[/QUOTE]
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