Re: IELang

Am 11/10 17:48  nicole perrin yscrifef:
> Hmm...what do you mean, "language list"?  I have a New College Edition
> American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:  it's bright red
> and has a list of IE langs inside the back cover.  It's more of a chart
> than a list, but it's still really cool.  My parents have another
> dictionary downstairs with a table almost like it.  This one has several
> things about IndoEuropean though:  There are articles about "A Brief
> History of the English Language," "The Indo-European Origin of English,"
> and the appendices "Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans" and
> "Indo-European Roots," as well as a table of Indo-European sound
> correspondences to numerous dead and living languages.  Is this what
> you're talking about at all?
>
Yes, that's the one I mean.  It seems to have legendary status among
some linguafictors for that list of "Indo-European Roots."

- andrew.
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