Re: [tied] Ah, look at all the lonely languages

On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:52:39 +0000, Gerry <waluk@...> wrote:

>If the answer to my inquiry isn't either "a city of the gods"
>or "alien presence" then the concept of "linguistic isolate" when
>there still remain speakers of the language, is also wrong headed.

That's probably because you have no notion of what the concept means.

>Languages are alive and constantly ebb and flow. Just heard that
>there is now a revival of that once dead language called Latin.

I rest my case. "Isolated" does not equal "dead". Latin is not isolated,
but dead. Basque is isolated, but living. Sumerian is isolated and dead.

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