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An artifice-ial language constructed based on ostensible ideological "homeland" based in the Baltics, is closest to one of the Baltic languages ? Gee, you don'
by gnipgnip 10y ago
An artifice-ial language constructed based on ostensible ideological "homeland" based in the Baltics, is closest to one of the Baltic languages ?
Gee, you don't say.
- barrkel 10y agoRelated languages are different due to changes; but they haven't all changed in the same way. Thus it is perfectly sound to describe one language as closest to the common substrate of other related languages. Here's an abstract example. L1: abcxfgziqk L2: qbcdvgxijk L3: awcdughrjk L4: abcdzghijk Looking only at languages L1 through L3 we may infer a common ancestor from what is more shared. Saying that L4 is closest to this hypothetical language is not an empty concept, or artificial based on some ideology.