Re: Wenedyk numerals (was: Judajca)
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 23, 2002, 7:12 |
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En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:
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> 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.
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