Re: Presentation on Language Creation
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 4, 2002, 7:31 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Tangentially, the author contrasts Sumerian vs "Eurasian". Does the
>later
> > term have linguistic meaning beyond the geographical? Sumerian,
>afterall,
> > was spoken in Eurasia.
>
>I believe that Eurasian is a term given to a hypothetical parent lang of
>a bunch of language families of Eurasia, such as IE and Altaic. Not
>sure what else is included in it.
Would this be a subgroup of Nostratic, or does it represent a rival theory?
Andreas
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