From: tgpedersen
Message: 51121
Date: 2008-01-09
>I don't know.
> Yes, I can understand Slavic, but Romance and
> Germanic? What do they share with Uralic?
>
> > > Sprachbund
> > > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> > > . . .
> > > Romance and Germanic languages of Western Europe
> > > (other than English) share many features due to
> > > interaction, both with one another and with
> > > Classical Latin and Greek. Similarly there are also features
> > > common to languages situated in Europe that are not
> > > found in Indo-European languages spoken in India and
> > > Iran, but are found in the Uralic languages. This is
> > > because of the great migrations across Europe.
> > > . . .