> I think a Balto-Slavo-Germanic node is accepted by some. I think a computer
> aided IE tree placed Germanic branching off from Balto-Slavic quite early
> on.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~histling/ This also suggests an Italo-Celtic
> node, a theory which I thought was current, anyway, and a Greco-Armenian
> node.
>
This is a fascinating study: I'm reading through all of the papers on this
site right now. How interesting that their findings resurrect the
previously-defunct Hittite hypothesis, meaning that the Anatolian
languages broke away first.
Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu