(04-15-2024, 07:06 PM)Cejo Wrote: Aren't languages themselves suitable as records of their development? Isn't that partly (maybe even largely) what linguistics is all about?
Is that the crux of this long-running disagreement?
Exactly. Some people just choose not to receive any new information.
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Y-DNA: N-Z1936 >> CTS8565 >> BY22114 (Savonian)
mtDNA: H5a1e (Northern Fennoscandian)