Christsophe wrote:
>I don't know why but Sumerian popped up in my mind when you mentioned
that...
>Is it possible that someone spent his/her career trying to prove that
Sumerian
>was actually an artificial language?
"Everyone knows" Sum. is a descendant of Ukrainian, or maybe it was
vice-versa-- as was proposed in a website cited for amusement value on
Cybalist a while back. Cybalist was also the lucky recipient of posts from
a certain Izzy Cohen (quickly banned) who, with incredible ingenuity, was
able to prove that a great many common words in many languages of the world,
descend from Hebrew.