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Horvath, Julia and Paul Wexler. 1994. Unspoken languages and the issue of genetic classification: The case of Hebrew. Linguistics 32 (2) : 241–269.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
categorization | historical linguistics | language type | language use | written language
Language as a subject
Akkadian, Peripheral | Arabic | Esperanto | German | Hebrew | Latin, medieval | Slavonic, Church, Old
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper deals with the genetic classification of a set of language forms referred to as 'unspoken languages', involving abnormal, interrupted transmission, as they are or were fulfilling exclusively nonspoken functions, as for example Hebrew and medieval Latin.