Re: [cybalist] Example: Burushaski, a dialect or language?

Marcus Prometheus wrote

> Please excuse me for intervening:
> (I am new to this list and a simple amateur of history, end not a

native

> english speaker)
> but I cannot understand the title of the table labelled:
> " % of divergence between any two languages "
> Might not it be labelled
> " % of CONVERGENCE (still existing) between any two languages " ?
> In this casethe figures found in the tabel would be correct

showing
100%

> convercence at the beginning (= no differientiation) and 0 %

convergence at

> the bottom of the list (= total differentiation)
> Thanks in advance. (Marcus Prometheus, Italian living in

Romania).

Thanks Marcus

You are correct. My error

Regards

John