Talk:Itelmen language
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From teh section on classification: "(...) but also some striking contrasts, especially in the area of phonology". Well, is that a reason to assume that it is unrelated to other Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages? When language diverge, the phonology is the first thing to alter. Compare English, Dutch and Swedish, three languages with a totally different phonology. Or compare Welsh, German, Italian and Polish. If you took phonology as a major criterion for language classification it would almost exclede the possibility that these languages are even distantly related. Steinbach (fka Caesarion) 13:10, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
