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So interesting to learn such an obscure language! And to think languages are intermingle somehow with each other ...

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Really lovely, Tanya! (And not just because I like swimming....)

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Ya. Hungarian does the same - which is why it wasn’t a surprise when encountered in Semitic 🙃. Also, more power to you for doing Manx! Also, not getting a grammar preview of a language from a family I’m faintly familiar with is pretty much what I would do (or not, depending, but probably yes, because what’s more fun than figuring stuff out from the raw data?). I mean, they do give you word-by-word glosses here. 🙃

Thanks for these posts!

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That's true, the glosses are helpful :) although they don't have them for all the sentences yet. Although if I had the time, I would have dived right into raw data, or even better - move to a monolingual community for a month :) but that's not doable in my case unfortunately

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In case you don't know. There are a number of typological features Celtic shares with Semitic. In the 1993's there was a dissertation by Orin Gensler at Berkeley detailing them.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8p00g5sd

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That's very cool. I didn't know it. Thanks, Richard!

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