From: Adam Twardoch (list.adam@twardoch.com)
Date: Wed Apr 22 2009 - 12:58:34 CDT
William J Poser wrote:
> I think that the term "Baltic language" is used both genetically,
> in the sense of "member of the Baltic subgroup of Indo-European", and
> geographically, in the sense of "language spoken in the Baltic region".
> Here's an example of the geographic usage:
> http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/history.html
Of course, the page
http://www.science.co.il/language/Character-Sets.asp
uses terms "Central European languages" and "Cyrillic languages", so
it's obvious that "Baltic" is not used in the sense of linguistic
classification.
A.
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