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

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com.invalid)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:41:50 +0100

24 Mar 2005 22:12:20 +0800: Lee Sau Dan
<danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>: in sci.lang:

> Comm> - even if some of us have tonality in the way we speak -
> Comm> sort of - we don't use the same tones for the same words.
> Comm> On the other hand, related languages should sound similar
>
>Ask an English speaker to listen to Swiss German, and see if he thinks
>those 2 languages "sound similar".

Too true.

>Personally, I find French and Italian sound very different, although
>they're closely related.

I agree.
And don't forget Castillian and Europese Portuguese: 95 percent of
words and conjugation are the same, except for small transformations.
But they sound completely different. 

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