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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Roots of Lithuanian language ?
In-Reply-To: Gregory J Dalley's message of 30 May 1995 13:53:15 GMT
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In article <3qf80b$9k@kettle.magna.com.au> Gregory J Dalley
<gjdalley@magna.com.au> writes:

>Illyrian: only known descendant Albanian

I know that this has been suggested from time to time, but has it ever been
clearly demonstrated?  Most of the suggestions I've seen have been as much
geographical as linguistic...
-- 
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_
