language acquisition.11 As is the case with the core branches, each of these additional branches is important in its own way for the study of Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic. Language typology, also known as typological linguistics, is the study of structural similarities between languages, regardless of their history. The goal of this branch of linguistics is to establish a classification, or typology, of language.12 Language typology is important for Hebrew and Aramaic because we can compare