Re[2]: [tied] Re: language shift ( it was Celts & Cimmerians)

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 26986
Date: 2003-11-08

At 1:16:51 PM on Saturday, November 8, 2003, Glen Gordon
wrote:

> The "Chinese language" fantasy, I suspect, is the product
> of Westerners' ignorance that caused people to lump all
> Asians, their languages and their cultures into one
> undifferentiated group.

No, it's very much the Chinese point of view. See Ramsey's
_The Languages of China_, p.16f.

Brian