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Re: Indo-Hittite (was "Wife" (was: Homosexuality etc.)

From:JS Bangs <jaspax@...>
Date:Friday, May 30, 2003, 19:30
Joe sikyal:

> 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 http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/ http://students.washington.edu/jaspax/blog Jesus asked them, "Who do you say that I am?" And they answered, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our interpersonal relationship." And Jesus said, "What?"