All of the above are part of the Indo-European family of languages, along
with many, many others...
But an attempt to parse the relationships could fill volumes (and has).
Meanwhile, this mildly interesting but off-topic discussion has done nothing
to incentivize me into getting the B's engine back together...
Anyone have anything amusing to say on the subject of, say, camshafts?
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 1/8/09 11:03 AM, Simon Matthews at simon.d.matthews@gmail.com wrote:
>> The division of Karl der Gro_e's Holy
>> Roman Empire between his two sons set in motion the split
>> of modern German and French from their original common root.
>
> Are you sure about that -- I have heard that the German language is a
> decendent of Sanscrit (the origin of most Indian languages).
>
> Simon
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