Re: Zireen and Sangari (was Re: Star Trek)
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 19, 2006, 9:42 |
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Hallo!
On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:42:26 -0500, Herman Miller wrote:
> Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
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> [...]
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> > Are Proto-Zireen and Proto-Sangari reconstructible, or are these too too
> > far
> > remote in the past?
>
> As with humans, writing was invented long after languages had
> diversified. Additionally, much of the early Zireen history has been lost.
That doesn't answer my question. I didn't ask for written attestations of
Proto-Zireen or Proto-Sangari; I asked whether they can be *reconstructed*
by means of the comparative method (as Proto-Indo-European has been
reconstructed), or whether they are so far back in the past that they no
longer can be reconstructed (as Proto-Human). But I guess that the latter
is the case.
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