No, it says "and some baltic group now disappeared", which implies to me
that it *isn't one of those we know of and have therefore been able to
classify as indo-european - because we *don't know of it because it has
disappeared already
I, too, would like to know the source. I'd like to know how one decides that
a word in a language in a set of languages from which the linguist infers
the parameters of indo european isn't indo-european... I'm not saying it
can'tbe done but it is going to be induction / deduction dangerously close
to bootstrapping
L
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Subject: Re: Muller, Kiefer, Armin, Schama
| Meika wrote:
|
| >when, and I cannot remember where I heard this, the german languages
| >contain the most non-indo-european words in their vocab which has lead
some
| >to speculate that "german" was/is a creole of indo-europeans and some
| >baltic group now disappeared, of course this hybridity would also mean
they
| >would be like no one but themselves...
|
| Since the Balto-Slavic languages are _also_ Indo-European, this
| Germanic-Baltic "creole" theory doesn't make much sense. (I'd love to
| know its source, Meika, if you recall it.) As for "non-Indo-European
| words" to be found in Germanic vocabularies, one such vocab. (English)
| can probably claim "egg foo yong" by now.
|
| Candice
|
|