Sāc tikai spēlēties ar lingvistiku. ^^

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reiz uzkāpis uz tā ceļa, tur arī paliksi, do konca.

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Tā ceļa galā ir kāds indivīds, ko es ar, hmm, savu bijušo S/O satikām Vērmaņdārzā pagājušovasar, un kurš no rokas pārdeva savu monogrāfiju par to, kā ķeltu valodu grupa ir tiešā ceļā [sic] cēlusies no šumeru valodas.

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kas pirmā bija, no tās arī cēlās. tāpat, kā visas citas :)

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I sense a heavy abuse of time travel there!

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i mean - they really are all connected.

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Of course, but it would be an amazing case indeed, if there was a direct linguistic connection spanning several thousands of years and several thousands of kilometres.

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not impossible until proven otherwise!

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Well, in the case of Sumerian language things get really funny. Sumerian, being a language isolate as it is, does not have an explicit connection to the tree of Indo-European languages as a whole. It is therefore even more preposterous to theorize about connection between it and a relatively modern branch of the Indo-European, such as the Celtic.

Besides, Sumerian language was, by all existing accounts, dead and long-forgotten at least a thousand years before the earliest possible appearance of Celtic languages.

I am not a linguist, of course, so these are my 2% only; and yet, I am pretty convinced that a linguist would just mostly append to what I said.

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this is all just a theory. so, i'm sticking to my guns - not impossible until proven otherwise :)

(for the sake of argument)

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In my world, this already counts as at least indirect proof. :)

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you would make a great prosecutor :)

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And, "theory" is a good, strong word for something there exists an amount of veritable evidence for, and which explains the given phenomenon while fitting well into the larger picture. What you probably mean is "hypothesis". :>

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theory also stands for something that works in artificially created environment, but doesn't go through in the real world (nepiesieties jēdzienam real world, bitte).

bet hipotēze arī derēs, jā.

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p.s. kur dabūji info par šumeru val.?

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No savas atmiņas un http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/573229/Sumerian-language

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