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Re: Wenedyk numerals (was: Judajca)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, August 23, 2002, 7:12
En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

> > Well, the Romance languages got sort of "satemized" as well. If you > compare > Italian |cento| and French |cent| with Albanian (NB a Satem language) > |qind|... >
True enough, the modern IE languages have mixed the picture so much that you can't talk about centum vs. satem languages without knowing their history. Albanian is a satem language? I thought it was centum... Hehe, again a proof that the centum/satem division, although of some use, must be used with very much caution. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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