Re: Multi-Family Dialect Continuum (was: Indus Valley script decode

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> The concordant parole, if it exists, would indeed be a strange
> speech - it would probably lack conjunctions!
>
> My *suggestion* was the only one I could think of to rescue the
> concept of this strange dialect continuum. Clearly I should have
> added a smiley to my question mark. I was answering the final
> question, 'In what world do Prakrit, Siamese and Tamil form
> a "dialectical contiuum"?'. I am not suggesting that 'rachasap'
> has anything to do with 'Milakkha'.

Sorry. I should have realized that you know better. :-)

David