Re: Indo-Hittite

John Cowan wrote:
> It certainly is a shock, but what's the point of devising new techniques
> if they never tell us anything new?
True. They can learn from their mistakes :-))))

Anyhow, that sounds like a kind of
> small difference: Germanic as non-satem influenced by satem, or vice
versa.
>
Is big difference.  Germanic/Baltic/Slavic sharing a common proto-stage???
Alas, my IE is rusty, but I'd certainly like to know their criteria.

And as you know, there's always been debate about whether language families
really break up in accord with neat branching tree structures.

As I think Don Quixote often said (I paraphrase), "Ay amigo Sancho, en este
mundo tan marvilloso, todo puede ser!"

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