biloxi update

David Kaufman dvklinguist2003 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 12 18:32:46 UTC 2004


Sorry!  I actually meant Balkan influence!  I'm not an expert on Rumanian, but what I've studied I know that there are Greek-Balkan influences in the grammar.  Such as the lack of a "true" infinitive form as still exists in other Latin languages, a trait shared by Modern Greek.

Dave

"Alfred W. T�ting" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de> wrote:
> I saw in another email that it's suggested that knowledge of
Muskogean helps with Biloxi. But Muskogean of course is a different
family. Is this because of close proximity and influence, such as the
case with Latin Rumanian and its Baltic/Slavic influences due its closer
geographic proximity to these non-Latin languages?<<


Baltic/Slavic influences?? Would you plz enlighten me about the Baltic
influence since I only know about the vast influence of Slavic (among
others)?
Romanian is widely influenced by
Slavic (e.g. dragoste, duh, vinovat/nevinovat, sticl�, nevast�)
Turkish (e.g. tutun, bucluc, rahat, musafir, ciorap, geamantan, halat)
German (e.g. s,naid�r, s,rub, cheln�r, gr�din�, cartof, granit,�)
Hungarian (e.g. pahar, hot�rit(?), vam�, porunci, cr�ciun)
French (e.g. etaj, butoi)
etc.

BTW, the Siouan archive is still unaccessible (tried it from several
links and with three different browsers). I don't think that a firewall
or the like can be the culprit. It looks like smth is wrong with the
server there.

Alfred




		
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