Re: Conlangs on based Slavic languages...etc
From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 2:55 |
--- Joe <joe@...> wrote:
> > Indo-Hitite; according to some
> > linguisticians,
> > Hittite is not an IE language, but is a
> > sister
> > language of IE. As far as the internal
> > history is concerned, it's simply "Aryan".
>
> Of course, that is quite a silly definition.
> The very term 'Indo-European',
> AFAIK, means all the recorded languages in that
> family(that can be proven to be related).
But at least some find the problem a little
messier: Hittite is enough ùnlike other IE
languages to warrant a different location in
their scheme.
I'm not offering a judgement, though I think it's
a very tantalising idea.
Padraic.
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