Languages

[sesame]

Originally Posted by ila

Okay, sesame it's time to revive this thread.

Aramaic is a Semitic language that was thought to be the language that Jesus spoke. Aramaic belongs to the Canaanite languages which is includes Hebrew and Arabic. It is still spoken by small groups of Christians, Jews, and Arabs in the Middle East. If I'm not mistaken the alphabet used in Aramaic is the forerunner of the Hebrew alphabet.

This information is easily verifiable if one does an internet search. I did not however, do a search for any of this information. What I wrote is all from knowledge I have picked up over the years as well as my travels in the Middle East.

Now, sesame I asked you to challenge me. Ask me something that I will at least have to do a search on.

While you are trying to think of something I have several questions for you.

1. How many languages are in common use in the country of China (dialects excluded)?

2. What is the main language of China?

3. How did the main language of China become the main language?

4. How much influence did the Mongol language of Ghengis Khan have on the Chinese languages?

I look forward to your report, sesame. (BTW I don't know the answers to any of the questions that I posed)

Yeah, ha ha
Ila, you little turtle, it took you one whole year to answer my question. So, I will answer your 4 questions within the upcoming four years. Until then, rest in peace.

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

Yeah, ha ha
Ila, you little turtle, it took you one whole year to answer my question. So, I will answer your 4 questions within the upcoming four years. Until then, rest in peace.

sesame, you might have gotten an answer much sooner had you not kept disappearing for months at a time.

[sesame]

Pitri ~ Pituh ~Pita (Sanskrit origin)
Padre (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian)
Father (English)
Bateren (Japanese)

alcool الكحول Arabic original word
alcool Early Portuguese
alcohol English, French

nagna (Sanskrit)
naakt (Dutch)~~Latin=nudo
nacod (Early English)
naked (modern English)

Al-Zabr (Arabic) الجبر
Algebra (Latin)
algebra (English)

ila (Sanskrit meaning, Earth, Word, Water)

What does Igirisu in Japanese mean?

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

What does Igirisu in Japanese mean?

Google was my friend in answering this since I know only a few Japanese words and cannot put together a complete sentence in Japanese.

Igirisu - has been translated as England, Great Britain, and United Kingdom.

[sesame]

The Japs cannot pronounce 'L' . So, the word "English" became igirisu in Japanese tongue.

Where did the word Assassin come from?



Hash-shashin in Arabic, refers to an ancient Ismail-Persian sect, skilled in the art of killing. (sort of Arabic Ninjas). They lived in N. Iran near Alamoot between 780-1330AD; and were also called as Nissari's. They secretly formed a society that organised political and religious murders of the noblemen of antipathetic sects.

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

Where did the word Assassin come from?



Hash-shashin in Arabic, refers to an ancient Ismail-Persian sect, skilled in the art of killing. (sort of Arabic Ninjas). They lived in N. Iran near Alamoot between 780-1330AD; and were also called as Nissari's. They secretly formed a society that organised political and religious murders of the noblemen of antipathetic sects.

I believe the origin is in Persian. A ruler/tribal chief in Persia used to give his mercenaries hash to get high before they went out to eliminate their enemies. The orginal word was hashasin. (I didn't need your hint btw)

[sesame]

Ila, my friend, thats called cheating!!!
You read my ghostwriting!:D

Opium is of little importance in regard to these Nissari killers.

[ila]

Originally Posted by sesame

Pitri ~ Pituh ~Pita (Sanskrit origin)
Padre (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian)
Father (English)
Bateren (Japanese)

You missed pater (Latin)

Originally Posted by sesame

alcool الكحول Arabic original word
alcool Early Portuguese
alcohol English, French

alcool - (French, at least in Canada and therefore if not used in modern French alcool would be early French since that is the style of French spoken by Quebecois and Acadians. French Canadians please correct me if I am wrong.)