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Re: Q & X

From:Marcus Smith <smithma@...>
Date:Thursday, January 11, 2001, 17:15
Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

>And I thought Turkish was in the Turkic-Altaic family or something.
Turkic is a member of Altaic. At least, that's one of the dozen classifications around.
> Boy, am >I *really* confused now. <wry g> Someday I'll get all these language >families figured out, but good gracious, there's so *many* of them....
Not only are there so many families, there are so many proposals for the exact same families. Once you get out of the really common languages groups like Uralic, Indo-European, and Semitic (probably a few others too), you get too many competeing proposals to make sense of them all without be a specialist. =============================== Marcus Smith AIM: Anaakoot "When you lose a language, it's like dropping a bomb on a museum." -- Kenneth Hale ===============================