Re: CHAT: "Frogman" -- an IE language!
| From: | Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 13, 2000, 19:19 |
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Fra: John Cowan <cowan@...>
Til: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU <CONLANG@...>
Dato: 13. maj 2000 20:04
Emne: Re: "Frogman" -- an IE language!
>daniel andreasson scripsit:
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>> What's "centum" and "satem"?
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>A supposedly basic division of IE languages according to whether the
>descendant of PIE *kmtom '100' begins with /k/ as in Latin centum,
>or /s/ as in Sanskrit satem. Roughly speaking Western vs. Eastern
>respectively, but Tocharian (the most easterly IE language, extinct)
>is centum-type.
I thought Assamese was the most Eastern IE-lang. It is spoken
northeast of Bangladesh. Tocharian spoken in Xinjiang, right?
That's in far Western China.
-kristian- 8)