Your first 15 or 20 languages, if sufficiently demonstrative of the full breadth of the family involved should enable you to do "instant translations" of segments of languages you've never heard nor read.
Good idea to learn American Indian sign language as well ~ it's just like Shang Dynasty characters and a good guide to ideographs with non Chinese, non Sumerian origins (like Windows).
11 posted on 01/30/2008 9:07:12 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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