Re: Celtic languages?
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 27, 2004, 16:04 |
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Joe scripsit:
> >We know no other language related to Iberian, and the only language
> >truly related to Basque is Aquitanian (preserved as proper names in
> >Latin texts), which should rightly be called "Old Basque", since it is
> >transparently Basque.
>
> Are you quite sure of that, or is it controversial?
It is not controversial among vascologists, at least. You can find
*someone* to controvert almost anything, and people who say "It's all
connected!" always tend to get better publicity than people who debunk
particular cases. Nobody wants to hear that some amazing coincidence
is just that, a coincidence.
See the Asimov essay with the marvelous title of "Pompey and
Circumstance", originally published in the May 1971 issue of _Fantasy
and Science Fiction_, and more accessibly in his collection _The Left
Hand of the Electron_.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Does anybody want any flotsam? / I've gotsam.
Does anybody want any jetsam? / I can getsam.
--Ogden Nash, No Doctors Today, Thank You
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