Re: Presentation on Language Creation
| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 3, 2002, 4:44 |
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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.
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