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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Language development tree #95021 02/09/2003 2:49 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky This site may have been posted here before; if so, I apologize to the post-er for not remembering. I do not know the meaning of the 2 labels on the left: Centum, and Satem Languages. Could someone help me out, please? http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/oe/oe-ie.html Holy cow--if anybody's interested in a discussion board where you write in Old English, follow the links! Yikes. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Language development tree #95022 02/09/2003 2:57 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Jackie: I haven't had time to read the article carefully, but apparently it is a way of classifying langueages by the word used to mean " a hundred". Here's a URL that seems to give more information: http://popgen.well.ox.ac.uk/eurasia/htdocs/anderson.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Language development tree #95023 02/09/2003 12:43 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Dr Bill, as usual, has come up with an excellent reference, if a bit technical. Don't go into it with the mistaken notion that the initial sounds of satem and centum are the same so what's all the fuss about. It is an ironic coincidence that the k sound in the centum languages has shifted to an s sound before the e in some languages. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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