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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Re: roots of lithuanian language
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In article <aldersonDAA3J2.88J@netcom.com> alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III) writes:
>This is a legend, like the claim that there are communities in the Appalachian
>Mountains (eastern U. S.) which still speak "Elizabethan English," that is, in
>which the language has remained unchanged since the 17th century.  (Or, if you
>prefer, that there is a canton in Switzerland in which classical Latin is
>spoken, unchanged since the time of the Caesars.)
Or that Icelandic is in fact spoken Old-Norse?
