Re: Language naming terminology

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De: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Para: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG <CONLANG@...>
Fecha: Martes 22 de Septiembre de 1998 21:22
Asunto: Re: Language naming terminology


>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> But Israel is pretty
>> unique anyway....you usually don't see a nation come back to life for a
>> *second time* after more than a thousand years of nonexistence.
>> And they should have called it Judea anyway ;)
>
>Not to mention the fact that the nation was scattered thruout the world
>- a few other nations have been reborn like that, but AFAIK, they're all
>cases wherein the people thereof remained in their homeland, and were
>merely ruled by another people.
>
If I'm not mistaken, between the first and second Egypcian cultures there
was a gap of more than a thousand years, when ruled by Hitites.  As Nik
said, Egypcian remaind in their homeland at that time.

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