CHAT: BritoHamitic? (was: CHAT: RE: R: Italian Particles)

AHA.  Celto-Hamitic.  Or BritoHamitic.  I stand corrected.
Sal.

Raymond Brown wrote:

> Yes, but that is not what And is implying.  A Semitic substrate is now, as
> Thomas Leigh points out, dimissed by most scholars. It's a question I've
> certainly examined and have not find credible myself.  But I've stated on
> many occasions that I am open to the notion of a Celto-Hamitic connexion;
> indeed, I said as much in my reply to And.
>
> >and it was scoffed at on the
> >basis of
> >my summary.  Go read the books on it, that's my advice.  It's one of the
> >world's more interesting linguistic "problems," which doesn't deserve
> >complacent dismissal before everything that has been written on it has
> >been read.
>
> I whole-heartedly agree - the complacent dismissal of any problem without
> examining the evidence is utterly reprehensible IMO.  I've spent much time,
> off and on, over the past 20 years or so pondering these matters and still
> don't know the answers.
>
> Thomas latest email on the matter IMHO raises some very interesting
> questions - including, indeed, whether we should really be calling the
> Brittonic & Gaelic languages "Celtic" at all.  Perhaps we should be
> thinking of a Brito-Hamitic and/or Hiberno-Hamitic connexion.
>
> Ray.
>
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> A mind which thinks at its own expense
> will always interfere with language.
>                    [J.G. Hamann 1760]
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