The usual Northwest Semiticimperfective-perfective distinction is found:Yantin-Dagan, 'Dagon gives' (ntn);Raṣa-Dagan, 'Dagon was pleased' (rṣy). It included a 3rd-person suffix -a (unlike Akkadian orHebrew) and an imperfect vowel,a-, as inArabic rather than the Hebrew andAramaic -i-.
There was a verb form with ageminate second consonant —Yabanni-Il, 'God creates' (rootbny).
In several cases that Akkadian hasš, Amorite, like Hebrew and Arabic, hash, thushu 'his', -haa 'her', causativeh- orʼ- (I. Gelb 1958).
The 1st-person perfect is in -ti (singular), -nu (plural), as in theCanaanite languages.
In 2022, two large, 3,800-year-old, Amorite-Akkadian bilingual tablets were published, yielding a large corpus ofNorthwest Semitic.[4] The text, in the Amorite/Canaanite languages, bears a recognizable similarity to Hebrew, and demonstrates that a spoken language very close to Hebrew existed by the second millennium BCE, rather than the first millennium BCE.[5]
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