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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Abkhazian, Letzeburgsch, Basque, and more...
In-Reply-To: Joseph Leighly's message of Sat, 11 May 1996 23:51:17 -0700
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Joseph Leighly <leighly@math.washington.edu> writes:

>The amazing fact is that Abkhazian is Indo-European.

No, it's not.

I looked at Abkhaz, along with Abaza, Kabardian, and Ubykh, more than 20 years
ago while writing an honours thesis on the Proto-Indo-European vowel system.
Amazing, they are.  Indo-European, they're not.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
