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This is weird..
Quote from dienekes blog:
Gary Moore said...
...By the way, the theory that the Iroquoian language of North America is somehow related to Greek goes back to almost the beginning of the 18th century with Pere Joseph-Francois Lafitau, a Jesuit missionary to the Iroquois. Lafitau believed the Iroquois to be the descendants of the Lycians, based in part of similarities in customs and even proposed etymologies for Greek words based on Iroquoian languages. Rev. J. A. Cuoq, studying Iroquois almost two centuries later, was also struck by the resemblance of Iroquoian languages to Greek.
It is interesting that there appears to be convergent evolution between Modern Greek and North American languages. I ran across this interesting article on polysynthesis in Modern Greek and how it compares to Iroquoian languages.
http://dienekes.blogspot.gr
http://books.google.gr/books?id=qpvJ...0greek&f=false
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