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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Roots of Lithuanian language ?
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In article <3ppqu7$so4@usenetp1.news.prodigy.com>,
Kyle Gryphon <UJZA56B@prodigy.com> wrote:

>These are the Indo-Eur branches in Europe-Baltic
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>Slavic
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>Celto-Romantic

"Italo-Celtic", please.  "Romanic" or "Romance" ("Romantic" is not a
standard linguistic term) designates the descendents of Vulgar Latin,
the major representative of the Falisco-Latinian branch of the Italic
family.

[snip]

>Romantic and Celtic are now pretty separate

Not all Indoeuropeanists prefer "Italo-Celtic" to "Italic" and
"Celtic" as separate families.
 


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