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From: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Kurdish langauge is indo-European langauge..proven fact
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In article <5c8gls$nvs@camel5.mindspring.com> Roxanna writes:

>caucasian languages have no relationship to the Indo-European, i.e. persian
>derived, languages.

This, of course, is the heart of the *linguistic* misunderstanding.  The Indo-
European languages are not "Persian-derived"; rather, Persian and the other
Iranian languages are one of the sub-groupings within the Indo-European family.

As for the sad racism evident in an earlier posting, I can only hope that a
session with a history book written by someone not of his persuasion will be
fruitful.  But that's hardly ever the case, is it?
-- 
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_
