Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 03/10/05


Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:35:10 GMT

John A Rea wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> >>>Do you have _any_ examples of a "conqueror" imposing their language
> >>
> >>on the "conquered"?
> >>
> >>How else did many Native American languages in N America, Pictish,
>
> Does anyone have the courage to ask Peter if Pictish is an example of
> a language written in pictograms? (See, I can say things that are
> just as stupid a those some of our visitors say!)
>
> Ramon Llull

(Who?)

Aaargghhhhhh!

(Just in case any confusion has been created, I think there's no
inscriptional evidence for Pictish, other than the possibility that a
handful of uninterpretable ogham inscriptions might be Pictish.)

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net


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