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

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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
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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

Since these languages are far too many and far too various for this corner
of the world, according to Alex, we should strive to reduce the number
somewhat. I suggest that Albanian should be regarded as a Slavic dialect,
Hungarian collapsed with Turkish into something we may call Hunkish, and
Romanian moved from this universe into "Thracian space".

Piotr