Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Andrew C Smith <a.c.smith AT juno.com>]

Vince wrote:

>i'm also interested in the resistance to larger language family
>relations, especially the relation of indoeuropean to anything else,
>and the relation to 19th century racism: that's quite a topic in itself.

But the "larger" family relations, i.e. relating several families
together into a meta-family, was an idea which naturally and obviously
arose, almost of itself, once the indo-european system was completed, in
the minds of the same people who created the indo-european system. Hardly
a resistence to the idea: they were the ones who came up with it.

Again: certainly there were more than enough racists in the 19th century.
But to say that the entire indo-germanische Sprachwissenschaft was a
racist fiction is going too far.




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