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Re: Contemporaneous protolanguages

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, September 25, 2004, 9:56
Rodlox wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- >From: Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> >To: <CONLANG@...> >Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 9:50 AM >Subject: Re: Contemporaneous protolanguages > > > >>enough that some people (e.g. John Colarusso) posit a Pontic >>family consisting of PIE and PNWC. Of course Renfrew and Gamqrelidze >>have said the Urheimat is in Anatolia about 7-9k years BP, but they >>are still the minority. >> >> > > 'Urheimat'...um, does that mean "ancestral language homeland" or something >like that? *curious* > > >
Yes, basically. 'ur-'=indigenous, original.