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David,
<br>I have not enough competence to answer straigthforward your question
but :
<br>(1) How do you know that "<i><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>a considerable
number of yuto-aztecan radicals</font></font></i>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1><i>becomed lost" </i>?</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>(2) These kind of examples are numerous
in agglutinative languages like Nahuatl</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>but there are plenty in other languages
too !</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Did you notice that <i>desayunar</i>
(like <i>breakfast</i> and <i>déjeuner</i>) are compounds ?</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Most, if not all, of the native speakers
of Spanish I know (resp. English and</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>French) where not aware of it.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>(3) I'm not sure that the notion of
"number of radicals" has any more sense than</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>the "number of words".</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Marc Eisinger</font></font>
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<p>--
<br>Entre le fort et le faible, entre le riche et le
<br>pauvre, entre le maître et le serviteur, c'est
<br>la liberté qui opprime et la loi qui affranchit.
<br>Henri Lacordaire
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