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- From: gaetz@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Terrance J. Gaetz)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
- Subject: Re: Closeness of the Nordic Languages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.152400.16886@cfa281.harvard.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:24:00 GMT
- References: <1hl344INN9s1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Dec28.222642.1036@aki.en.open.de> <STEINARB.92Dec30141552@tindved.idt.unit.no>
- Organization: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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- In article <STEINARB.92Dec30141552@tindved.idt.unit.no> steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang) writes:
- >
- >> At least they belong to the same language family (indo-european
- >> languages, germanic languages, to be more specific).
- >
- >To be even more specific:
- > o English and German belongs to the eastern branch of the germanic
- > branch of the Indo-european family of languages.
-
- A minor correction:
- o English and German belong to the *western* branch. I believe the
- eastern branch is extinct; it is mainly known from a fragments of
- a 4th century bible written in Gothic.
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- Terry Gaetz -- gaetz@cfa.harvard.edu
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