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Lawrence Waddell – On the So-Called Aramaic Writing

Something to pay close attention to especially by those whose viewsare fossilized by bad, but repetitious ideas. – Setyan Vahan

“The Phoenicians were Aryan in race, speech and script. The so-called Aramean script that the Semitic scholars exemplify are variant local forms found in Armenia, highlands of Mesopotamia and Persia, from which derived the Arabic, Syriac, Parsee, Hebrew and Mongol scripts.”- Lawrence Waddell, 1924

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