Re: Another Essentialist Explanation

Henrik Theiling wrote:
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>> 'Greek is essentially encrypted Spanish.'
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That really ought to be "Modern Greek"-- and not too surprising, for as
someone pointed out to me many years ago, the phonetics of both languages is
almost the same, though of course the phonemics/phonotactics differ. E.g.,
[B],[G] phonemic in Greek, merely allophonic in Spanish. etc. etc.

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