SV: IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Lars Martin Fosse]

JoatSimeon at aol.com [SMTP:JoatSimeon at aol.com] skrev 01. februar 2000 19:18:
> -- true, although of course some things are more _likely_ to be borrowed than
> others. Numerals, body parts, family relationships, and so forth, are less
> likely to be loan-words.

For the record, I believe English numerals tend to be borrowed into Hind-Urdu.
The reason is that phonetics have played havoc with the numerals from 1 - 100
(you more or less have to learn them all by heart), so that when you go above
20, English numerals are easier to use.

But please correct me if I'm wrong!

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