Old Albic (was: DECAL: Examples #2: Phonotactics)

On Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 05:34 , Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:

> Hallo!
>
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:28:51 -0800,
> Sai Emrys <saizai@...> wrote:
[snip]

>> Q5: Motivation / reasoning / goals behind this?
>
> As with the phoneme inventory, personal style and also plausibility
> as a pre-Celtic language of Britain (not much of a constraint as we
> know next to nothing about what those languages were like)
I was under the impression that we know nothing - not next to nothing -
unless, of course, it was the Hamitic substrate that gave rise to the
'Semitic' features of insular Celtic    ;)

> and distant cousin to Indo-European
Aw - does it have to be even remotely a cousin of IE? Why must Basque &
Etruscan remain the only European isolates?

Ray
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