LL-L "Reconstruction" 2002.08.13 (01) [E]

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From: "Bob Taylor" <robert.taylor1 at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: first posting

Good morning!

I am posting for the first time.
My question is, have attempts been made to 'reconstruct' in detail
the language that is the ancestor of all the above? If you can refer
me to a book which attempts this (either looking back 2000 years
or so; or second-best would be a reconstruction of the earlier
language that precedes all three branches of Germanic) I would
be grateful. If I'm lucky there could even be a web reference?

Thankyou

Robert

City of Preston, England

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