--- Roger Mills wrote:
> >Well, in the case of Tocharian that wouldn't be difficult: to Turfan and/or
> >Kucha. Eventually I might indeed take a "yakwe" with me in order to travel
> >between those two.
> >And about Indo-European... Sigh, I am not a linguist anyway...
> There seem to be quite a few possibilities--
> Somewhere around Lithuania (no longer fashionable, I think)
> Somewhere in the Central Asian steppe
> Somewhere on the north shore of the Black Sea, or (now underwater) of the
> Black Lake (only if PIE was pre-5500 BCE)
> Somewhere in Anatolia
> Somewhere in the Danube valley
> Or (the latest controversy on Cybalist) Somewhere in India.
>
> Nostraticists would have it easy-- they could aim almost anywhere in the Old
> World/Africa and be assured of finding _something_.
The problem is only that our poor linguist probably would have to visit all
those places to find out if it's really the same language they are speaking.
Since I am not aware of a PIE word for "airplane", I think this will be
technically difficult.
Jan
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