Re: OT (?) Balkan Sprachbund
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 19:41 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
> Eldin Raigmore wrote:
>
>
>>Naturally. Modern Greek is in that [Balkan] Sprachbund, but before the
>>fall of the
>>Roman Empire that Sprachbund wouldn't have existed, at least not in its
>>present form.
>>
>
> An interesting question: What is really known about the ethnic makeup of the
Further to my earlier mail. I've just found this interesting page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_linguistic_union
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