Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

J Matthew Pearson wrote:


> Wearing my linguist hat, I have to say that I'm extremely dubious that
> this would be useful tool in determining the relatedness of languages.
In all fairness, it's not meant for that.  It's meant when you have
a sample of an unknown (to you) language, and want to know where to
go with it.  That being so, strong superficial resemblance is usually
what you want.

In the case of Manx ("Scots Gaelic spelled like English") that will
steer you wrong, to be sure.


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