To: Palter
"We are all told that there is this kind of mother tongue, proto-Indo-European, from which all the languages we know emerge. All the Indo-European languages, that is. Not Semitic (Hebrew, Arabic) or Sino-Tibetan languages:
To: James C. Bennett
One of those trunks, below the slavic languages, says “Islamic”. I am confused.
8 posted on
10/04/2010 12:30:01 AM PDT by
Defiant
(Liberals care more about the Koran than they did about Terri Schiavo.)
And btw, nice tree James, I just stole it. :') Here's one I stole from someone else around here:
28 posted on
10/04/2010 5:55:09 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
both of these I've reposted are width=400, the images are wider.
29 posted on
10/04/2010 5:57:38 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
32 posted on
10/04/2010 6:06:31 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
33 posted on
10/04/2010 6:08:55 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: James C. Bennett
Semitic and Indo-European languages have a predecessor. Many of what had been thought to be loaner words simply have a common ancestor in that predecessor.
The thought is these languages were spoken by people around the Black Lake. When it turned into the Black Sea, and the water rose, they moved out of the area.
None of either group have a clear connection to Sa'ami, Finnish, Hungaria, etc. or the Dravidian languages.
52 posted on
02/08/2011 6:30:35 PM PST by
muawiyah
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