Re: Contemporaneous protolanguages

Rodlox wrote:

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>From: Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
>To: <CONLANG@...>
>Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 9:50 AM
>Subject: Re: Contemporaneous protolanguages
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>>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.
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> 'Urheimat'...um, does that mean "ancestral language homeland" or something
>like that?  *curious*
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Yes, basically.  'ur-'=indigenous, original.