--- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
You have not understood my point. A dead language
that is reconstructed,
needs to be considered as not being that language.
don't confuse the definitions!
reconstructed language is a hypothetical language,
that isn't attested. for
example proto-indoeuropean, nobody knows how it spoke.
scholars rebuild it in
base of its daugthers languages, that are well
attested (sanskrit, Greek,
persian, latin, etc).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_reconstruction
ancient greek is very, very, very well attested, more
than latin and others. it's improper to talk about
reconstruction.
i recommend you, use another word to express your
idea. i suggest you
"extended". "ancient Greek extended"?
C.L.
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