Abstract:The present paper discusses the problem of the classification of Amorite within the Semitic family. After testing the Amorite corpus of personal names and toponyms for the presence of sixty features that have been proposed as characteristic of the Central, Northwest and East Semitic branches -and viewed as necessary conditions for establishing the relation of a language's belonging to one of these subgroups -the authors conclude that the existing data fail to be conclusive. Since, on the one hand, the availabl… Show more
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