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Re: Skälansk - History and Babel text

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 21:25
Keith Gaughan wrote:


> Pascal A. Kramm wrote: > > > Yes, but keep in mind that this decision was made in the late middle
ages,
> > so it refers to their knowledge at that time. > > Tsk, tsk! Quite the opposite! Languages with a VSO word order would have > been quite well-known. Ireland, for a start, was one of the centres of > learning during the Middle Ages, Gaelic and was one of the first > langauges with a written grammar. You can count all the other Celtic > languages in too.
And don't forget the Biblical Hebrew: it's predominantly VSO, esp. in narratives. -- Yitzik

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