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yichusdik:
a- Can you rewrite your first paragraph? I think you transposed a couple words and I don’t understand it.
b- I agree that the Torah seems to indicate it spread from east to west. Secular scholarship is beginning to lean in that direction too (always fun when they catch up with us, isn’t it 😉 ) based on a deconstruction of the Greek alphabet down to its roots in Phonecian which was passed to Crete by Minoan traders.
c- We both quoted the same Ramban. Since they came out of Syria, they probably spoke Phonecian which was –as far as linguists can make out — almost identical to Hebrew.
d- As for Amalek, they lived about as close to Israel as Moav was, so their language would probably be about as related to Hebrew as Moabite. As a frame of reference, Moabite is close enough to lashon hakodesh that I could visit a museum exhibit housing a replica of a moabite inscription and read it aloud to the tour guide with translation.