No Proto-Celtic?

[Rick Mc Callister]

	And also in spoken French
	singular @m 	plural z at m

>[Ed Selleslagh]

>Grammatically determined initial-consonant mutations (I think it's important
>to be that explicit about it) occur in other, still existing, languages too:
>e.g.  (sub-saharan) Fulani ( or Peul). And some Bantu languages, like
>Tshiluba, use initial consonant palatalization for diminutives (so does
>Basque) and all use class-prefix modification (Actually, that may be the
>origin of the Peul phenemena: I wonder if the Celtic equivalent might not have
>a somewhat similar origin, e.g. the female form of the adjective).

>Verbal systems can change quite a bit in 1000 years, let alone in thousands of
>years; just look at what had already happened to Latin and Greek verb by the
>10th or 11th century A.D. - I mean Byzantine (and later) Greek and the various
>Latin languages.

>I really would like to know other people's views on these matters.

>Ed.

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701