lars@lemmy.sdf.org to Linguistics@mander.xyz · 8 months agoLinguistic Coincidenceslemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squareGharbeia, Ⓐ@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months ago@lars But for languages on different branches of the same [super-]family, how can we be sure that there’s no common ancestor upstream? Like for example: Proto-Germanic and Middle Persian, or Proto-Germanic and Latin?
@lars But for languages on different branches of the same [super-]family, how can we be sure that there’s no common ancestor upstream? Like for example: Proto-Germanic and Middle Persian, or Proto-Germanic and Latin?