Re[2]: [tied] Anatolian

At 8:52:50 on Monday, 24 October 2005, Grzegorz Jagodzinski
wrote:

> And, have dialectologists problems with counting each
> single dialect as French, Occitan aka Provençal,
> Catalonian, Spanish or Italian?

What about the Franco-Provençal dialects?

[...]

> By the way, the idea of nation is older than you think.
> Ancient Greeks had strong feeling of belonging to a
> particular region or town, and, as a consequence, to a
> particular dialect. But they can have distinguished a
> Greek from a barbarian as well. I can see striking
> similarities to the idea of nation in modern times, and
> can't you?

No. That last is an example of the older notion of a
people, quite different from the notion of a state.

Brian