Re: Proto-Celtic

Ha, ha, even paleontologists can't agree. Many of the newly discovered finds such as Mungo Man are being given a joint billing i.e containing features of "both" Australopithecines and Homo whatever. Paleontologists then select which camp they wish to align themselves with (that usually coincides with the focus of their research grants).

Gerry

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From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>

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Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:37 PM

Subject: [Nostratica] Re: Proto-Celtic
I think this is a question for palaeontologists rather than linguists. While it does happen in biology, I think the only instances in language occur when a language becomes a 'classical' language, such as French and Latin. Even then, Mediaeval Latin did have its own innovations. Richard.