Re: Family project
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 31, 2001, 21:53 |
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Frank George Valoczy wrote:
> I've missed a few posts about this butif it's what I think it is it sounds
> great; but must it be Romance? Why not Balto-Slavic, or non-IE entirely,
> say Sino-Tibetan or Bantu?
I think the idea is to start with a completely a priori proto-lang.
The terms "Romance" and "IE" refer simply to the time-depth
(say 1000 years vs. 6-10,000 years), not to those language families
in particular.
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