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Can someone here tell me what the main characteristics are of the Indo-European language family. Same question for Semitic languages.
regards,
Jean Candide
p.s. I'm not a linguist, just a language lover |
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| Peter T. Daniels |
| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 8:07 am |
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candide@granma.cu wrote:
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Can someone here tell me what the main characteristics are of the Indo-European language family. Same question for Semitic languages.
regards,
Jean Candide
p.s. I'm not a linguist, just a language lover
Are you posting from Cuba?
A good book that will give you some answers to this sort of question is
*A Dictionary of Languages* by Andrew Dalby.
But it would be hard to start to reply without knowing how much you know
about the ways languages are described!
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net |
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| Jacques Guy |
| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:30 pm |
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candide@granma.cu wrote:
Quote: Can someone here tell me what the main characteristics are of the Indo-European language family. Same question for Semitic languages.
You must realize that, in time, languages shed their original
characteristics
and acquire new ones.
Think about your question now. Did you mean "what characteristics do
Indo-european languages still have in common?" or something else?
Think about it a bit. The nice thing about linguistics is that
you don't need any special knowledge. Only (with a name like yours
I suppose you read French) une tête bien faite plutôt qu'une tête
bien pleine. |
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| Makoto Taniguchi |
| Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:20 pm |
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candide@granma.cu wrote in message news:<400fbc7d$0$7036$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>...
Quote: Can someone here tell me what the main characteristics are of the Indo-European language family. Same question for Semitic languages.
regards,
Jean Candide
p.s. I'm not a linguist, just a language lover
Indo-European is a bit too unspecific. You should have said Germanic
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| André Keshav |
| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:26 am |
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"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> a écrit dans le message de
news: 400FCB06.5E0F@worldnet.att.net...
Quote: candide@granma.cu wrote:
Can someone here tell me what the main characteristics are of the
Indo-European language family. Same question for Semitic languages.
regards,
Jean Candide
p.s. I'm not a linguist, just a language lover
Are you posting from Cuba?
From his grandmother's computer in Cuba more precisely (or is granma not
grandma)? |
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