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Linguistic Coincidences (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 8 months ago by lars@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linguistics@mander.xyz

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[–] gharbeia@mastodon.social 2 points 8 months ago

@lars But for languages on different branches of the same [super-]family, how can we be sure that there's no common ancestor upstream? Like for example: Proto-Germanic and Middle Persian, or Proto-Germanic and Latin?