Old Languages w/ new thread
| From: | Jesse Bangs <jaspax@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 4, 2001, 7:50 |
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 20:19:35 EDT Colin Halverson <CHalvrson@...>
writes:
> I was wondering- how many people here speak dead languages,
> especially Latin, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew. Also, not quite on
the subject how
> does Sanskrit fit into Indian languages. I've heard some are European
> based, some Dravidian?? Can someone explain?
I have some knowledge of Latin, but I will always defer to more
knowledgeable members of this list on that language. However, I am
currently learning Classical Greek (not Koine, although I will start
learning Koine next year), and I'm pretty confident in that language.
BTW, I've been gone for about a week and a half due to stupidities with
UPS that kept my computer in transit from Colorado to Seattle a lot
longer than it needed to be. In the meantime, I have an unrelated
question that's been bugging me--are there any languages or language
families unrelated to the Semitic languages that have tri- or
bi-consonantal root structure? How do their structures and forms compare
to the Semitic languages?
Jesse S. Bangs Pelíran
jaspax@ juno.com
"There is enough light for those that desire only to see, and enough
darkness for those of a contrary disposition." --Blaise Pascal
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