*p>f Revisited - When was German invented?

Patrick C. Ryan proto-language at email.msn.com
Sun Mar 14 21:06:44 UTC 1999


Dear Joat and IEists:

-----Original Message-----
From: JoatSimeon at aol.com <JoatSimeon at aol.com>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 3:22 AM

>>msn.com writes:

>>I do not want to actively enter this discussion but, for whatever it may be
>>worth, I believe the Germanic sound system was developed in the IE homeland,
>>in close proximity to Semitic, as the correspondences I have developed
>>between Germanic and Semitic seem to suggest --- after other IE branches had
>>struck for the west. >>

>-- gee, that sure makes them acrobatic travellers -- bouncing all around the
>map, getting from somewhere in the Middle East to Jutland, crossing all sorts
>of other linguistic territory on the way...

Yes, acrobats just like the Huns.

Pat



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