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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font><br></font></font></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: <span><span name="Roger Thijs"></span></span></font><font><span><span name="Roger Thijs"><span class="gI"><span name="Paul Finlow-Bates" class="gD">Paul Finlow-Bates</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a></span></span></span><span><a href="mailto:rogerthijs@yahoo.com" target="_blank"></a></span></span><br>
Subject: </font><font><span class="gI">LL-L "History" 2012.09.09 (02) [EN]<br><br></span></font></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Though there can be a danger in extrapolating linguistic
similarity from archaeology. I understand that Hopi and Zuni artefacts
are very hard to differentiate for the average archaeologist, you need a
specialist. But Zuni and Hopi are in entirely different language
families. Idon't know if there are Eurasian counterparts but I can
imagine it happening.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.33px;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.33px;background-color:transparent">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Paul<br><br>-----------<br><br></span><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject:
History<br><br>Paul,<br><br>I'm sure there are many such cases all over the world. <br><br>In my opinion it's a matter of stratification and areal features (i.e. shared features within certain geographic areas) in material culture, traditions and language. <br>
<br>For all intents and purposes, the Uralic language speakers of Europe (especially Finnish, Estonian, Livonian and Hungarian) share a lot of cultural features with neighboring speakers of Indo-European languages. It's a matter of "layering" and sustained contact. Similarly, Basque culture is not vastly different from neighboring cultures of Spain and France. Yet, the Basque language is entirely unrelated to any known language. And then again, its phonology shares specific features with Romance Spanish languages; e.g. the long "r" ([r:]) and the retracted "s" ([s̠]).<br>
<br>For a long time, linguists doubted that Armenian is Indo-European, and the reason for that is an accumulation of influences from Caucasian and Turkic languages. <br><br>All along the American Pacific coast, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, unrelated indigenous languages share area-specific phonological features (e.g. [ɬ] and [tɬ]), and their speakers also share many area-specific cultural features. <br>
<br>Cultures and languages do not evolve in a vacuum, and speakers of unrelated languages have all sorts of contacts.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br>
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