Hi quil,
I only partially agree that Arabic is a semitic language. The Iranian Andites probably had a heavy hand in developing Avestan which is considered the Old Iranian language. Certain words from Avestan are coupled very closely to both Sanskrit and to the Germanic languages. That is, they actually came from the natural linguistic tendencies of the Adamite-Andites. But yes, modern Arabic, just as the Hittite language is very. very much a Semitic-Andonite language.
By the way, it is quite possible to tease out the Saxon element from Old English because there are many references to Old English terms that are very close to Old Norse, Old Frisian and modern Scandinavian. The core word vocabulary of Old English, Old Frisian, Old Norse, modern Danish, modern Swedish, modern Dutch and modern Frisian is amazingly consistent and often matches closely with Gothic, Sanskrit and sometimes Lithuanian, Avestan and Tocharian.
Greek, Roman and Celtic language families can be shown to be more loosely coupled to the common words of a Germanic-Indo-European language framework. There are the derivative languages, not the Germanic ones. I know that pronouncement goes much further than current PIE understanding, but the evidence is there waiting to be picked up on....
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