Re: [tied] Re: language shift ( it was Celts & Cimmerians)
From: Glen Gordon Message: 26985 Date: 2003-11-08
David:
>For another, Mandarin and Cantonese _are_
>related to one another, Finnish and Italian aren't,
Yes they are...
Finnish < Finnic < FUgric < Uralic -------------
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Steppe
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Italian < Latin < Italic < IndoEuropean ---
A 10,000 year degree of seperation. But whatever.
Vietnamese and Mandarin are a little trickier to relate
together, I admit. Maybe within 20,000 years, tho' :)