Re: Origin of the name Tech...
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 21, 2000, 17:31 |
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At 15:28 20.7.2000 -0700, Danny Wier wrote:
>IE and Dravidian are the only two attested daughter families. Somehow
>it surviced in Tech, an African language that would naturally be closer
>related to Afro-Asiatic (aka Hamito-Semitic).
It might be closer relayed to Dravidian after all(*), since in the Real
World there were quite lively overseas contacts between South India and
Ethiopia.
(* If you accept the Nostratic idea, which I don't in the Real World. It
occurs to me that it might be a runaway [Elamo-]Dravidian lg with a heavy
Afro-Asiatic adstrate!)
/BP 8^)>
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