So true, wise one, that they would resort to
expressive gestures :-P
A few millennia could even change the bushiness of
one's beard.
Now here's another question: what language
was spoken during the interum between Nostratic and proto-Celtic -- in that
period of several millennia?
Gerry
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Subject: Re: [Nostratica]
Proto-Celtic
> OK wise one. If a proto-Celtic spoke
proto-Celtic and a Nostratic spoke Nostratic, would a proto-Celtic and
Nostratic be able to converse?
No. They couldn't have met without a
time machine, and, had one been available, the system of Proto-Nostratic would
have changed beyond recognition by the time it became Proto-Celtic (a few
millennia later). They would have been very different from each other, and
completely incomprehensible to each other's speakers.
> If so, which
language would they be speaking? A proto-Celtic-Nostratic?
What's the
point of this question? People who can't speak or understand each other's
language will typically resort to expressive gestures
:)
Piotr
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