Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 9, 2003, 20:00 |
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Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> (like in Haags, the dialect of Den Haag, which monophongises pretty much
> every diphtongue :)) ).
Hmm. There's material here for a bizarro language theory, a la Basque-as-
Proto-World, based on the fact that both Haags and Shanghainese
monophthongize all diphthongs, and both are major trade cities, and ...
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