Early
attestations of OE, ON, OSax, and OHG are far too
similar to be the result of
some three millennia of
divergence; the suggestion can't be taken
seriously.
Brian
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A.F
1.
I have read that you can transpose word by word
Sanscrit
into Lituanian and get decent Lituanian
:
MAybe PIE has not even started splitting in fact
!?
2.
How many different conjugations and roots have been
listed
in Old English for the most basic verb : to
be.
I heard a joke that there are as many verbs "to be"
as you can find OE texts.
I don't think these languages are that much
similar.
I(ch) stand means present in English : past : I got
up in German.
There are major incoherences within
Westic.
3.
If you take the 100 word list as a base for a rough
datation,
FRench versus Italian : 79 %
English versus German : 72 %
French against English/German : 34 or 35
%.
Erzia and Moksha within URalic : 83%
We know from tombs, that display different
features,
that these two branches of Mordvin were already
separated
2500 years ago.
Some people even think these are only one
language.
If we take the average 79 and 83 : 81
this about - 10 % per 1000 year
(You can check with .xls Power(0,9999;year)
Westic is 100-72 = 28
Westic is split in individual
languages
at least since around -1 500 BC.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:47
AM
Subject: Re[4]: [tied] Re: Renfrew's
theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian
At 3:53:19 PM on Saturday, September 29, 2007,
fournet.arnaud
wrote:
> From: Brian M. Scott
>> At 1:06:22 AM on
Saturday, September 29, 2007,
>> fournet.arnaud
wrote:
>> [...]
>>> English and German were
different languages as early as
>>> - 2500,
>> This
is obviously impossible, both linguistically and
>>
historically.
> Obvious impossible !?
> For which reasons
?
Early attestations of OE, ON, OSax, and OHG are far too
similar to
be the result of some three millennia of
divergence; the suggestion can't
be taken seriously.
Brian