Re: Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52408
Date: 2008-02-06

----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Ryan
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:00 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Languages Evolve in Punctuational
Bursts


Icelandic conservation is due to ethnic continuity.

Compare Japanese.

Patrick
==============

What do you mean about Japanese ?

It's supposed to be a mix of a Siberian base
plus austro-asiatic loanwords
and it has a couple of dialects

Arnaud
===================