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Re: Another Essentialist Explanation

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Saturday, November 18, 2006, 18:08
Henrik Theiling wrote:
> >> 'Greek is essentially encrypted Spanish.' >
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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