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