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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> wrote:

> Because people have decided that they want to learn it. Being dead
> doesn't mean that there's something about a language that prevents

its

> being learnt; it just means that the language has no native

speakers left.

When has Latin ever had "native" speakers?

> An isolated language is one that has no known related languages.

What or how many word root comparisons are needed to claim a
relationship between languages?

This

> does not mean that people can't speak it. If all the world spoke a
> single language which just magically popped up yesterday, than that
> language would (might) be an isolate, in spite of the fact that

everyone

> spoke it. (If all the world spoke a single language and had done

for

> thousands of years, then it'd still be an isolate.)

Again, we have the presence of "both".....a language can be an
isolate even when the entire world speaks it. The same is true for
embryo development....an embryo at day three doesn't look like a
human but technically it is.

> >About Sumerian.....did it ever exist?
> >
> No, it's all a myth.

Created by whom?

Gerry

> Tristan <kesuari@...>