From: Andreas Prilop (nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de)
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 13:18:53 CDT
Patrick Andries wrote:
> That European languages emerged from Sanskrit ? I very much doubt it.
> That they share a common reconstructed ancestor (Proto-indo-european),
> yes. And that Vedic Sanskrit is close to this reconstructed ancestor,
> yes. But I would say this is different than saying that European
> languages descend from Sanskrit.
Romany is spoken in Europe and hence may be regarded as
a European language.
(What is a European language, anyway? Afrikaans? Esperanto?)
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