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To: Verginius Rufus; SunkenCiv; dennisw
When one major culture adopts the tongue of another, they usually do so because the adopted language has a specific advantage, most always the advantage being of the language having a written script(the Thai script is a stylised Indian Tamil script). But Indian languages, given the similarites with ancient Greek, have a totally different script compared to the European languages.

So this theory that Indians borrowed only language, of the spoken form, and not the script, has some holes to patch.

13 posted on 01/12/2006 9:26:11 PM PST by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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To: CarrotAndStick

So the Indian Tamil script has no vowels, like Hebrew?


14 posted on 01/12/2006 9:29:16 PM PST by FierceDraka ("Sure as I know anything, I know this: I aim to misbehave." - Capt. Mal Reynolds)
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