Is hebrew related to akkadian or sumerian?
Yes, of course. All three languages are Semitic, alongside with Aramaic, Arabic, Amharic, Ugaritic, Moabite, Phoenician, Edomite and many others… The Semitic languages are quite similar with their syntactic structure, roots, conjugating of the verbs etc. Akkadian and Sumerian are both of the East Brunch of the family, while Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic are of the West Brunch of it, so the different languages are not understandable to one another. Despite this- the resemblance of the Semitic languages is still substantial: I’m a Hebrew speaker and I speak neither Akkadian, nor Sumerian, but when looking at old scripts of these two languages, I understand some of the words, and sometimes the even the meaning of the sentence. It is sort of like the difference between French and Spanish, German and Norwegian, or Polish and Russian. ~ Now for some “facts” to be refuted about Hebrew: 1) Hebrew has got nothing to do with Spanish. Hebrew is Semitic while Spanish is Romance (a brunch of the Indo-
