Re: Can relationships between languages be determined after 80,000 y

> English /T/ is a rare enough sound --AFAIK only found
> in Europe in English, Icelandic, Faeroese, N. Spanish,
> Albananian and Greek; in Asia in Burmese, Classical
> Arabic; in the Americas in Shawnee and I don't know
> where else.

AFAIK, Faeroese doesn't have it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_language
The capital is Tórshavn, not *Þórshavn, so it seems to have þ > t like
the Scandinavian languages.


Torsten