Re: [tied] Piotr..your thoughts on....?

From: alex
Message: 22857
Date: 2003-06-08

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 6:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Piotr..your thoughts on....?
>
>
>> My opinion about is that there is just one language. I am not an
>> adept of
> "a lot of IE languages" on the square meter and for Balkan it should
> be definitely too many languages for being real. Ilirian + Thracian +
> Greek is already enough for that portion of Earth.
>
> Really? At present, we have at least the following major languages in
> the region (not to mention minor participants):
>
> -- Greek
> -- Albanian (Geg, Tosk)
> -- Romanian (Daco-Romanian, Arumanian, Megleno-Romanian)
> -- Slavic: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian
> -- Hungarian
> -- Turkish

hehehe, well, for god's sake , I know this is a joke otherway I won't
think at you as linguist anymore:-))

alex