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From: poser@russell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.ai,sci.lang
Subject: Re: words order in English and Japanese
Summary: "old" languages are not necessarily verb final
Keywords: verb-final languages
Message-ID: <1919@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 23 Jan 88 22:07:00 GMT
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Reply-To: poser@russell.UUCP (Bill Poser)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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	To add an example to Rick Wojcik's point, Egyptian is one of the
earliest attested languages (since ~3000 BCE), but in its 
earliest forms (Old and Middle Egyptian - I'm not familiar with later
Egyptian) it was verb-initial.

						Bill