Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 19:23:35 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: cjc26@cornell.edu Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sanskrit numbers (was: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)) Message-ID: <20020522192335.P47352@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.1020522125123.29827A-100000@travelers.mail.cornell.edu>; from cjc26@cornell.edu on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 01:14:14PM -0400 References: <20020522115950.D47352@lpt.ens.fr> <Pine.SOL.3.91.1020522125123.29827A-100000@travelers.mail.cornell.edu>
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cjc26@cornell.edu said on May 22, 2002 at 13:14:14: > > Well, yeah, they're related languages. :) They're both descended from > Proto-Indo-European. They undoubtedly have some sort of link, but is this "proto-Indo-European" some sort of guess or reconstruction, or is there actual evidence for it somewhere? How do people arrive at "Hoi(H)nos" and "h3ekteh3" (how do you pronounce those "3"s?) in PIE? Who are the people who spoke it -- the Aryans who are believed to have originated from around the Caspian Sea? If so, how do we know anything about their language -- is there any kind of record they left behind at all? Yes, I suppose I could try look up the book you cited, but I'm lazy :) - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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