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From: alderson@netcom5.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Etruscan
In-Reply-To: Hans Kamp's message of Sun, 11 Aug 1996 22:58:02 -0700
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In article <320EC7EA.4B41@introweb.nl> Hans Kamp <hanskamp@introweb.nl> writes:

>Can someone explain the similarities between Etruscan and Albanian?

Easily:  Both are (or were) languages spoken on the northern Mediterranean
coast.

End of similarities.
-- 
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_
