Talk:Sprachbund
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[edit] South Asian
Is the South Asian language relatedness due to area or due to the widespread adoption of Sanskrit for writing and its influence on the different languages? Jztinfinity 01:37, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, I'm sure the two go hand in hand. Sanskrit's influence on every single language in the Indian subcontinent (except som tribal languages in the east, I think) definitely was also a vehicule of cultural dominance and geographic convenience.Le Anh-Huy 06:46, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] språkknippe?
språkknippe maybe the word for sprachbund in Norwegian it isnt in danish nor swedish. And also what it is called in other languages is not really relevant for the topic.I removed the mention of språkknipper. (in danish it also sounds like a dirty word)--Maunus 01:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Make IPA Links
There's something to be done to the Wiki markup to make the IPA pronunciations links to the IPA article...
[edit] Some examples needed
The article says:
"Likewise, the Romance and Germanic languages of Western Europe (other than English) share many features due to interaction. Similarly there are also features common to languages situated in Europe that are not found in Indo-European languages spoken in India and Iran, but are found in the Uralic languages. This is because of the great migrations across Europe."
As a linguist, I would like to see some specific examples of these similarities, and references to where they are discussed. I'm also unclear on why the existence of similarities among (IE? non-IE as well??) languages of Europe that are not shared with the IE languages of India and Iran is evidence of a sprachbund; I would have thought that might be attributed to separate development of IE languages--unless it's saying that Hungarian, Basque, and other non-IE languages of Europe share features with IE languages of Europe. In any case, some examples would help.
And the alleged similarity of European languages with Uralic languages also needs examples and references.
Mcswell 14:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Typo?
The title of the article is "Sprachbund", but the word "Sprachbutt" appears in the text. MAzari 04:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Australia
I don't think Australia is a Sprachbund at all. If anything, it is an example of the reverse because the population density was much lesser than in other areas. Anyone any thoughts? Munci (talk) 21:09, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
