Re: a "natural language" ?

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Hallo!
> is due to regular sound changes wreaking havoc with the inherited
> paradigms.  Proto-Indo-European seems to have been more regular than
> most of its descendants.
Surely this is just an artifact of reconstruction, which relies on
regularities in the daughter langs to predict features of PIE?

(late reply, forgiveness begged; 1,913 messages behind)

s.
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