Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families) are loans

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <st-george@...> wrote:

>
> > In other words 'sloppy' dialectal German is close to standard Dutch
> > (I should insert here the standard caveat that this does any bias

on

> > my part etc etc)? That would mean that more or less 'creolised'
> > versions exist all over the Germanic-speaking area, they are just
> > valuated on the basis of sets of different sociological parameters.
>
> I don't know whether 'creolised'. I'd rather say it's... natural.
> I.e., transformation processes; that made PIE => Germanic;
> Germanic => OHG => MHG => new German dialects. In similar ways
> to those that made aqua => French [o:].
>

But if that is so, how come the Slavic languages don't have dia-
/sociolects in which the case system breaks down (except for Bulgarian
and Macedonian and they have an excuse (Turkic adoption of Slavic) for
that)? And if it's a universal tendency, how come people are
only 'mundfaul' north of the Weisswurstäquator and not in the former
Celtic areas?


Torsten