Re: Re : Reconstruction works, was: Re : a weird question...
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 16, 1999, 18:38 |
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On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:
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> Fi, fi donc !
> i don't need swadesh to know that all languages descend from tunu.
Absolutely. One can easily prove the Denden reflexes of common Tunu
words using the formula Tunu [CV] -> Denden [*(*V)(*G)(*C)(*G)(*V)]
which holds with amazing regularity, especially if we allow for the
semantic shifts that are bound to happen in a history as complex as
the one that intervenes between Tunu and Denden.
Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt