Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 7:38 PM +0100 11/9/04, Daniel Ridings wrote: > > I recall reading somewhere recently that Euskara is the only >> non-Indo-European language spoken in Europe. Is that correct? > >Ken, > >I don't think Basque counts as an indoeuropean language. Finnish and >Hungarian certainly aren't. I'm not sure of the status of Albanian. I >suspect it is, but is in a separate family from most familiar ones. > >Then you have Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Somalian, Shona in >the UK (Harare North), and a couple of dozen of others. > >Daniel I read a while ago that more than half of all the languages of humanity, and also more than half the language families that ever existed are to be found on the Island of New Guinea. Many distinct languages are only spoken by a hundred people or less. -- * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com