Thread:User talk:Fenakhay/Giving cognates/reply (2)

Nope, it's pretty much the case everywhere (see the numerous Finnic entries at maa). English has the exception that pretty much any cognate can be added, without an upper limit (a stupid custom if you ask me, but oh well). For other languages, two-three is considered the enough in my understanding, unless no solid reconstruction is availeable. As for Arabic, since Somali and Afar are pretty large languages within Cushitic, it could be handy to provide links to Arabic/Hebrew/Egyptian, because that gives an overview to the reader that presumably knows what these languages are, giving the effect of "Hey! I know these, so that's what is related to each other!", and if they feel the need to thén know what more languages are related, the can go through the reconstructions. It's a little like if English "horse" was related to French "chien" via some unwieldy PIE *kʷʰanensa, it would be handy for the reader to know "oh right, that abomination means that the English term is related to the French one". Hope you can follow my reasoning :)