Re: [tied] Genetic Link between Albanian and Romanian

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:34:57 +0000, alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> You wrote:
> "Nonsense. Similar phonological systems have *nothing* to do
> with genetic affiliations."
>
> If you are so confident, please put here an example of 2 languages
>that are NOT GENETICALLY LINKED but they have ALMOST THE SAME
>PHONETIC SYSTEM...For 10 beers that you cannot do this.

Well, Spanish and Indonesian are very similar:

Indon. pb td kg ? Spanish pb td kg
c^ 3^ c^
f s s^ x h f T s x
m n n^ N m n n^
l r l l^ r rr
w j w j
a e i o u & a e i o u

Nine differences, the same as Romanian / Italian.

The differences between Indonesian and Bambara (Niger-Congo, West Africa)
[pb td kg; c^ 3^; m n n^ N; f s z s^ h; l r; w j; a e E i o O u] are even
smaller (6).

> Please take next the Slavic languages to see that their genetic
>relations are well detected by this criteria.

Nonsense.

> In any case the "distance" between the 2 phonetics systems is a
>better indicator that your famous "Swadesh List" ( with all its
>theory behind it), that you have proposed on this forum...

Nonsense.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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