Re: Italian vs Turkish

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Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 05:08:33 -0800

Even if the supplementary architecture for helping us learn language
evolved from a common ancestor, this does not in my opinion entail that
languages evolved from a common ancestor. The evolution of software
like language is very different from evolution of genes. After all, the
same hardware can be used to write different software. I believe this
may have been the case, but I agree that for the common languages you
may be right.

Maybe the inter-lingual similarities should be attributed to other
causes, as well, however, have you thought about that? 

--
Eray Ozkural

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