Como hemos hablado del ingl�s, me permito traer este mensaje de otro foro donde se habla de unas curios�simas coincidencias entre el gal�s y las lenguas de La India:
>Searching for the Welsh-Hindi link > > >It has long been known that the two languages stem from Indo- >European, the "mother of all languages" - but the peculiar >similarities between the two accents when spoken in English are >striking. >Remarkably, no-one has yet done a direct proper comparative study >between the two languages to found out why this is so, says Ms >Mathur. >"What I'm hoping is that if amateurs like myself - who have indulged >in doing a little bit of research here and there - come forward, we >can actually do proper research with professional linguists," she >told BBC World Service's Everywoman programme. >No coincidence > >Ms Mathur explained that when she moved to Wales, everyone instantly >assumed she was Welsh from her accent. > >"I would just answer the phone, and they would say 'oh hello, which >part of Wales are you from?'," she said. > >"I would explain that I'm not from Wales at all - I'm from India. > >"It was just hilarious each time this conversation happened." > >Her interest aroused, Ms Mathur spoke to a number of other people >whose first language is Hindi. > >One Hindi doctor in north Wales told her that when he answered the >phone, people hearing his accent would begin talking to him in >Welsh. > >"I thought maybe it isn't a coincidence, and if I dig deeper I might >find something more," Ms Mathur said. > >Particular similarities between the accents are the way that both >place emphasis on the last part of word, and an elongated way of >speaking that pronounces all the letters of a word. > >"We tend to pronounce everything - all the consonants, all the >vowels," Ms Mathur said. > >"For example, if you were to pronounce 'predominantly', it would >sound really similar in both because the 'r' is rolled, there is an >emphasis on the 'd', and all the letters that are used to make the >word can be heard. > >"It's just fascinating that these things happen between people who >come from such varied backgrounds." > >The similarities have sometimes proved particularly tricky for >actors - Pete Postlethwaite, playing an Asian criminal in the 1995 >film The Usual Suspects, had his accent described by Empire magazine >as "Apu from the Simpsons holidaying in Swansea". > >Proto-European language > >But not only the two languages' accents share notable common >features - their vocabularies do too. > >"These kind of things really struck me," she said. > >"When I reached number nine they were exactly the same - it's 'naw' - > and I thought there had to be more to it than sheer coincidence." > >She later spoke to professor Colin Williams of Cardiff University's >School Of Welsh, who specialises in comparative languages. > >He suggested that the similarities are because they come from the >same mother language - the proto-European language. > >"It was basically the mother language to Celtic, Latin, and >Sanskrit," Ms Mathur added. > >"So basically that's where this link originates from." -------------------------------------------------------------------- IdeoLengua - Lista de Ling�istica e Idiomas Artificiales Suscr�base en [EMAIL PROTECTED] Informacion en http://ideolengua.cjb.net Desglose tem�tico http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ideolengua/files/Administracion/top-ideol.html Enlaces de Yahoo! Grupos <*> Para visitar tu grupo en Internet, ve a: http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/ideolengua/ <*> Para cancelar tu suscripci�n a este grupo, env�a un mensaje a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> El uso de Yahoo! Grupos est� sujeto a las: http://e1.docs.yahoo.com/info/utos.html
