Re: Q & X

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.


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Marcus Smith
AIM:  Anaakoot
"When you lose a language, it's like
dropping a bomb on a museum."
   -- Kenneth Hale
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