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

On Sat, 13 May 2000, taliesin the storyteller wrote:

>* daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...> [000513 13:13]:
>> Danny Wier wrote:
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>> > 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"?
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>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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