Re: Tamil sha (U+0BB6) - deprecate it?

From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 14:01:42 CDT

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    Andreas Prilop a écrit :

    Your clock seems to be set to the 31st of December 1969...

    Patrick Andries wrote:

  
    That European languages emerged from Sanskrit ? I very much doubt it. 
That they share a common reconstructed ancestor (Proto-indo-european), 
yes. And that Vedic Sanskrit is close to this reconstructed ancestor, 
yes. But I would say this is different than saying that European 
languages descend from Sanskrit. 
    
    
Romany is spoken in Europe and hence may be regarded as
a European language.
    Obviously what was meant was the very large majority of European languages of the Indo-European group...
    (What is a European language, anyway? Afrikaans? Esperanto?)
    I don't know I was just quoting... ;-)  Aren't we nitpicking ?


    P. A.

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