Talk:Sprachbund

message: 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)
thread_title: South Asian

message: 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)
thread_title: språkknippe?

message: There's something to be done to the Wiki markup to make the IPA pronunciations links to the IPA article...
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.6.254.191 (talk • contribs) 12:40, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make IPA Links 

message: 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)
replies: text: Who ever said there was a similarity between Indo-European and Uralic? They're so different. The only similar words between them are loan words like "sataana" (Satan). Basque is a language isolate. What could it possibly be sprachbund with? It's not even close to any other language in syntax or vocabulary. I think it has some similar proper nouns, but that's expected. If you're talking about Caucasian languages, that's an entirely different matter. ForestAngel (talk) 06:15, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some examples needed 

message: The title of the article is "Sprachbund", but the word "Sprachbutt" appears in the text.
MAzari 04:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: vandalism methinks.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 07:59, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Australia 

message: Article merged: India as a Linguistic Area. India as a Linguistic Area did not have a talk page. Cnilep (talk) 15:28, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article merged

message: I'm no linguist, but is there any evidence supporting a sprachbund between German and French? There are so many similar words. Like "Hummer" and "homer" (lobster). Just wondering if it could be listed as an example. 
On that note, why isn't English listed as an example? It's in closer proximity to Romantic countries, yet it's descended from Germanic. Many words have been borrowed from Latin and Greek to make up the English language, yet in no way is English a Romance language. What gives? ForestAngel (talk) 06:08, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  German and French?  

message: The section on Europe is extremely unclear. What is meant by South Slavic avoiding the infinitive and future tense? --Ioscius∞ 16:44, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  europe 

message: Do you have any of this? If so, I would be very interested to read about it. Thanks. --KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 09:41, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evidence for Thai & Vietnamese being historically atonal. 

message: I have reverted the addition of China, Japan and Korea to the article.  The use of Literary Chinese, Chinese characters and wholesale borrowing is interaction of a different kind, and wouldn't be used as an example in linguistic works about Sprachbünde.  Kanguole 18:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  China, Japan and Korea