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Re: glossogenesis (was: Indo-European question)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, June 25, 2001, 0:45
Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Actually, it stretches all the way to Greenland. It's also debateable > whether there's any language border thru' Alaska - you could say the > conintuum goes all the way to Chukchia in that direction.
My understanding was that there is a fairly sharp break in the otherwise continuous dialects: the Yupik/Inupiaq isogloss bundle. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter