At 16:22 +0100 2001-11-09, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

> > Latin is part of the same family as Linear B.
>
>Uh!? I am loosing my way with all these existing, existed or proposed
>classification systems. Which one of them puts Latin and Linear B in the
>same class? To begin making order, this is the first system we could get
>rid of!

Linear B is a syllabary, apparently unrelated to anything else
around, even Egyptian. Latin is an alphabet, descended via Etruscan
from Phoenician and its predecessors.
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