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Was There Hebrew Language in Ancient America? An Interview with Brian Stubbs

TitleWas There Hebrew Language in Ancient America? An Interview with Brian Stubbs
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2000
AuthorsStubbs, Brian D., and John L. Sorenson
JournalJournal of Book of Mormon Studies
Volume9
Issue2
Pagination54-63, 83
KeywordsAncient Near East; Language; Linguistics; Mesoamerica
Abstract

In an interview with John L. Sorenson, linguist Brian Stubbs discusses the evidence he has used to establish that at least one language family in Mesoamerica is related to Semitic languages. Stubbs explains how his studies of Near Eastern languages, coupled with his studies of Uto-Aztecan, helped him find related word pairs in the two language families. The evidence for a link between Uto-Aztecan and Semitic languages, or even Egyptian or Arabic, is still tentative, although the evidence includes all the standard requirements of comparative or historical linguistic research: sound correspondences or consistent sound shifts, morphological correspondences, and a substantial lexicon consisting of as many as 1,000 words that exemplify those correspondences.

URLhttps://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jbms/vol9/iss2/9