Re: List of natlangs

PMVA to CLL
Greetings

> Armenia:
>   Country: Hayastan
ARMENIAN, OLD

L - generally hayere-n [hajEr'Ejn], classical, liturgic grabar
    [gra'bar], colloquial, "layic" as<xarhabar [aSxarha'bar]
C - Haykh [hajk_h]
S - gen. Hay [haj]
A - hayere-n
O - historical Armenia=20
E - hay- unknown, maybe from people's name Hayasa/Hayas<a;
    grabar < gir 'letter, script';
    as<xarhabar < as<xarh 'world'
R
(1) [r] =3D "one struck" vibrant (I have no idea what is the English term=
!)

> Farsi:
>   Country: Islamic Republic of Iran: [dZumhuri e eslami e irAn]
PERSIAN, MODERN

L - fa-rsi- [fa:r'si:]
C - Iran [i'ran], formerly Fa-rsiye [fa:rsi'jE]; province Fa-rs
S - ?
A - fa-rsi-
O - Iran, Afghanistan (fa-rsi- ka-boli- [~ ka:bo'li:] =3D dari-
    [da'ri:]), Pakistan, India
E - cf. C
R
(1) Some consider dari- a separate language.

> Pashto:
PASHTO (AFGHANIAN)

L - 2 groups of dialects: "soft" (southern) and "hard" (northern)
    S pas<to- [paS'tO:], N paxto- [pax'tO:]
C - AfGa-nistan [afQa:ni'stan] (Persian name)
S - S Pas<tun [paS'tun], pl. Pas<ta-n@ [paSta:'n@], N Paxtun, pl. Paxtan@
A - S pas<to- , N paxto-
O - southern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan
E - ?, maybe < *Pars(u)wa-na 'Persian'
R
(1) "G" =3D gamma

> Switzerland:
>   in Rhaeto-Romanish: ... [...]
Svizera ?


TOKHARIAN =86

2 languages: East (A) and West (B)

L - E ars'i ? ['ars^i]; W ?
C - ?
S - E ars'i ?; ?
A - ?
O - south of Tien-Shan in China

> Ancient langs (mostly extinct): =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D

All these languages below are extinct.

> Ugaritic
> Minoan Linear A
> Minoan Linear B - early dialect of Greek
> Lydian - A(sia) M(inor)
> Lycian - AM
> Luwian (aka Luvian) - AM
> Hittite - AM
> Hieroglyphic Hittite - AM
> Elamitic - Fertile crescent
> Thracian - B(alkans)
> Ilyrian -Bal
> Dacian - Bal
> Oscan -It(aly)
> Umbrian - It
> Sabine - It
> Venetic -It
Perhaps not Italic.

> Etruscan - It
> Messapic - It (?)
Illyrian, spoken in ancient Italy.

> Hieroglyphic Akkadian - FC
> Sumerian - FC
> Vedic Sanskrit
> Pali - a la the Buddhist Sutras
> all the Prakrits (Gujarat, Hindi, Bengali, etc.)
>    (in this column, their ancestral proto-forms of course)