Re: [NATLANG] Q Re: The Finno-Celtic Conspiracy
From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
Date: | Monday, March 22, 2004, 1:11 |
Paul Bennett scripsit:
> Of course, to prove a direct Irish/Finnish connection, you would also
> first have to prove that Finnish was not Uralic (or that Irish is not IE),
> and I don't think there's a case that could be convincingly made there in
> either case.
Nooo, he's not a total idiot. He thinks F-U is an aberrant I-E family,
but that its relationship to Samoyedic is a matter of borrowing.
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