Re: Neanderthal and PIE
| From: | Noelle Morris <rhamantus@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 13, 2008, 18:45 |
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It is a nice idea, but someone's already thought of it, I'm afraid; in Jean
Auel's *Earth's Children* series (of which *Clan of the Cave Bear* is most
famous), the Neanderthals transmit all their knowledge, including language,
genetically. On the other hand, she never created a conlang from this,
mainly because her Neanderthals had a mainly nonverbal language with few
vocalizations, so you could take the idea and run with it.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:49 AM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Mark Reed wrote:
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> What if, by some freak of evolutionary development, the Neanderthal
> language was transmitted _genetically_? That might mean that it would be
> difficult for non-Neanderthals to learn it, thus, early modern humans would
> have learnt it imperfectly.............
>
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- Rhamantus