Re: Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish
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> Because it creates a false dichotomy between Semitic
> and non-Semitic, presupposing that all non-Semitic AA
> languages form one branch. Given what we know about
> AA, that is misleading at best and comes across as
> ignorant
>
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> The dichotomy is not inadequate.
>
> Semitic displays a certain number of innovative features :
> - vowel length
> - proliferating morphology (3-C roots)
>
> You cannot find this in the rest of PAA.
> Vowel length in Egyptian and Coptic
> results from position of stress.
> Proto-Egyptian had only *a *i *u.
>
> Arnaud
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IMHO, Proto-Egyptian had only *Ya, *a, and *Wa.


Patrick
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