Talk:Wilhelm Schmidt (linguist)

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Did Schmidt say the various cultures had the common idea of a benevolent Creator or that they "created a God"? I don't have Karen Armstrong's book in front of me. --Uncle Ed (talk) 00:39, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

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"Schmidt managed to prove that Mon–Khmer language has inner connections with other languages of the South Seas, one of the most significant findings in the field of linguistics." What does "inner connections" mean? What "other languages of the South Seas" does this refer to? If this is what Schmidt claimed, do modern studies confirm it? (I suspect not.) "One of the most significant findings in the field of linguistics"? Nonsense: even if it is valid, and very important for Austroasiatic studies, it is of practically no significance to other linguists, made no great advance in methodology or knowledge about language in general.Linguistatlunch (talk) 15:04, 24 November 2021 (UTC)