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Re: CHAT: "Frogman" -- an IE language!

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Saturday, May 13, 2000, 19:13
On Sat, 13 May 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

>* daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> [000513 13:13]: >> Danny Wier wrote: >> >> > Frogman is both a "centum" and a "satem" language, and it also has undergone >> > a Grimm's Law-like change as Germanic and Armenian have. So far, I have: >> >> What's "centum" and "satem"? > >Very roughly: >The word the number hundred is a version of in a western and eastern >indo-european language respectively. Shows some of the differences >between the two branches, and is used to classify an IE lang as either >western or eastern. >
And of course works until Tocharian arrives on the scene. It is a centum language, but is about as far east as any IE language has gone (outside of the modern era). Padraic.
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