Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

I really like how IE this word looks

The Salishan (also Salish) languages . . . are
characterised by agglutinativity and astonishing
consonant clusters—for instance the Nuxálk word
xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓
(IPA:
[xɬpʼχʷɬtɬpɬːskʷʦʼ])
meaning 'he had had a bunchberry plant' has 13
consonants in a row with no vowels.
(Wikipedia "Salishan")
or xLpxwLtLpLLskwC in ASCII

--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 12:25:40 AM on Wednesday, February 13, 2008,
> fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> >>> Why can't Salish be part of PIE ?
>
> >> Because it lacks PIE morphology and lexicon.
>
> > I'm afraid you are jumping to the conclusion a
> little bit
> > too fast.
>
> > Why don't you look at the words ? and *after* that
> make a
> > decision.
>
> Quite possibly he did. In any case, if you really
> aren't
> just indulging in an elaborate joke, you'll have to
> produce
> much more than a tiny handful of very loose and
> unsystematic
> lexical resemblances, especially since what I've
> seen of the
> morphology looks very un-IE. And of course there
> are the
> obvious geographical and temporal difficulties,
> which, if
> not linguistic, still cannot be ignored.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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