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Re: Yay!!!! I have a web page!!!!

From:Josh Roth <fuscian@...>
Date:Thursday, November 12, 1998, 2:04
In a message dated 11/11/98 8:50:54 PM, fortytwo@UFL.EDU writes:

>On your languages page, you have a family tree of languages, but a lot >of the languages are connected to two ancestors. How is this possible? >Languages only ever have one parent language, tho there may be lots of >influence from another.
Well these languages did have 2 ancestors....basically the speakers of 2 different languages moved into the same area and each group learned some of the other language, and the two languages mixed over time. That's really never happened? Josh