Arabic and IE

[H. Mark Hubey]

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Alexis Manaster-Ramer wrote:
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> There may be cases where we would like to say this. Eastern
> Armenian Romany is the classic example, although recent
> surveys of the topic tend to focus on other examples
> (Mitchif, Copper Island Aleut, etc.).  The W. European Jewish
> language known as Loshnekoudesh (apparently also once used in
> at least one Christian village in Bavaria) and distinct
> from Yiddish (it is in fact a mixture of Yiddish and Hebrew
> in the way that EAR is a mix of Romany and Armenian,
> Mitchif of French and Cree, etc.) is one that I don't
> think is EVER cited, but it happens to be the only of these
> which I have studied in some detail, so I thought I'd
> put in a plug.

It would be possible to make similar ones for language families.
For example, Semitic would have two parents (one of them the
African branch) and the other parent would be also the parent
or ancestor of IE. Turkic would have two parents, one of them
proto-Euphratic (from Landsberger) and the other some Altaic
language. This would fit in with population movements over the
the last 12,000 years or so when the glaciers started melting.

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Best Regards,
Mark
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