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Re: Age of langs (was Tempus)

From:Cian Ross <cian@...>
Date:Saturday, March 10, 2001, 5:38
On 03/08/2001 at 3:45 PM Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >But when dealing with contemporary languages, there's little meaning saying >that one is older than another.
Would it be reasonable to speak of languages (at least in the same family) as being more-derived versus less-derived? Cian cian@io.com