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Re: Kentum/satem (was: The future of Sturnan)

From:Keith Gaughan <kgaughan@...>
Date:Monday, April 29, 2002, 14:07
From: Lars Henrik Mathiesen [mailto:thorinn@DIKU.DK]

> And then there's Basque, of course. There's the intriguing parallel of > one stop series lacking a labial member in the reconstructions of the > two proto-languages. MCV (again) suggested a correspondence between > (glottalic) PIE and Proto-Basque, and even Larry Trask didn't trash > the effort, as far as it went. The problem is that the time depth of > Proto-Basque as reconstructed is much less than PIE, and there's very > little of the lexicon that's ancient --- so we will probably never get > further than intriguing suggestions.
And third prize in the monster raving looney award goes to: http://http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/

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William Annis <annis@...>
Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>