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Olga García Nov 06, 2015 (22:14)

Finnish and Welsh might be related

Fiona Jallings Nov 07, 2015 (03:54)

It's a pretty weakly supported theory :/

Jenna Carpenter Nov 08, 2015 (10:24)

There's a decent book on this; Nostratic: Sifting the Evidence (and many other papers, but I'll save you a bibliography!) No one would ever deny that the two languages were in contact with and borrowed from each other, but I wouldn't go any further than that.

Александр Запрягаев Nov 08, 2015 (12:09)

+Fiona Jallings Not an expert, but I was always drawn to Nostratic hypothesis (in its weakest form, without Afro-Asiatic). Though I don't really think it is possible to distinguish contact and borrowing from genuine connection in such a distant era. But the morphological and grammatical evidence seems much persuasive for me.

Totally unconnected: did somebody before attempt to have some fun and derive Protoindoeuropean from Primitive Quendian? :D Is PIE gherdh 'enclose' connected to CE COR 'round'?

Olga García Nov 08, 2015 (13:22)

Totally unconnected: did somebody before attempt to have some fun and derive Protoindoeuropean from Primitive Quendian? :D Is PIE gherdh 'enclose' connected to CE COR 'round'?"

LOL, I've always had the thought that Quendian and Indo-European (and Uralic) are somehow connected.

Александр Запрягаев Nov 08, 2015 (19:47)

+Tamas Ferencz Indeed I do! In fact, it is obvious that in-universe, the Eldarin tongues (and even more so Avarin) would have inevitably influenced our speech. But which branches exactly? I wonder which languages did he consider the remainder of Adûni.