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--- Muke Tever skrzypszy: > << The languages that constitute the traditional Italic branch of the > IE family fall into two distinct groups, Sabellian (whose best-attested > components are Oscan and Umbrian) and Latin-Faliscan. There are so many > differences between the two in structure and lexicon that a case can be > made that the notion of an Italic Branch is an error, a distortion of the > linguistic analysis to justify a subgroup based more on geography than > linguistic evidence. >> As far as I know, the difference between these two groups is of the same character as the difference between East- and West-Romance, and P- and Q-Celtic. An interesting phenomenon: Italic can be subdivided into P-Italic and Q-Italic, and Romance can be subdivided into P-Romance and Q-Romance. An incredible pity that no P-Italic language has survived! Apart from that, as far as I know Oscan and Umbrian, they are undeniably sister languages of Latin. Fascinating languages, both. An interesting future conlang project could be the resurrection of one of these two as a contemporary language. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer