On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 05:55 , Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>>Nope. In some historical sense all natural languages are equally old
>>(except those originating in creoles).
Um, we actually can date some languages, like French, for which we
have the first documents written in it. But if linguistic change can
be thought to be tidal....
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