Thread:Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali/@comment-26184570-20170414144253/@comment-26347028-20170415141718

Argali1 wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: Argali1 wrote: 1. Abugidas are what you described, but with an inherent vowel (such as Telugu and Tibetan), as opposed to a plain Alphasyllabary (such as Thaana and Lao).

2. You're forgetting about Basque, and there are no Austronesian languages in Europe. Basque is the only surviving member of te Aquitanian language family, and one of its extinct relatives is believed to have been spoken in modern day Sardinia, and it has left influences upon the Sardinian language (mostly in proper nouns). The Basques are not an island, they're an area between France and Spain, and as I'm sure you're aware, Aquitanian is a sub-division of Indo-European. Seriously, look up Basque Country. It's a language isolate, yes, but it's not a fucking island.

Could've sworn I read somewhere that the Austronesian languages came in, at least marginally, through the middle east to Eurasia, but I'm probably wrong.

After further research, it did, just in the 1950's, so you'd probably not consider that to be right.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples#/media/File:Migraciones_austronesias.png) I never said that Basque was spoken on an island, I said that it has an extinct relative that was spoken on the island of Sardinia. The Aquitanian languages were relatives of Basque, not a sub-set of Indo-European. You literally said "what European island". You know, saying that, Argali, isn't technically true. Yes, it's of disputed origin, but theoretically you could say it's a subset of Indo-European, most definitely nowadays when it's basically half French/Spanish. You could realistically classify it as such, but I find your knowledge to be incredibly lacking.

You can classify things, sure, you can use the fancy terminology, sure. But you don't know about linguistics. You don't know about the science of language. You simply know things about languages. I know things about how languages change. Such as, for example, where the Basque languages come from. I do not, however, know random shit about every single island in Europe. I know some stuff, about some things, but it's specialist knowledge - not your sort of bullshittery that you're passing as knowledge.