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Old Saturday, June 16th, 2007, 16:03
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Default Re: Language Family Trees

It's nice for the beginners, but the problem is - how to simply represent all the beuty of world languages development. Such languge family tree models are too simple to represent reality.

Ever such simplification looses important information but there are
the other possibilities.

My idea is - a sequence of maps having
vertical - time dimension and horizontal - geographical plus lots of
tied to locations on maps files containing information about languages starting
from the beginning.

Physically, it is possible to buy hundreds of the maps, to draw different regions and to tie some paper or books full of information, but the problem is - to find empty sport hall to create the model of the world languages development (joke). Really, such approach is possible to realise in the virtual space and this will be created during next thirty years, I hope. Someone clicks on the time scale and on the map for location and obtains necessary all known information including not only language specifity but genetical type
and hystorical development too and the main languages
development features and trends.

The new model of indoeuropean similarities I've presented consists
of basic strata - the VIth genetical group language 35 000 BC, and
the main stream - the IXth genetical group language used somewhere
in Asia and transported into Europe.

The next multistrata - European languages, when european population was
compressed at the LGM (Last glacial maximum)time. The next
multistrata represents neolithical influencies and inovations known
as indoeuropean. And every language and language step of course must
be connected according to the model of development.

Tremendous contstruction, but reality is much more complex than any
model. The problem is how to choose enough adequate abstract model not loosing important information.