Re: Indo-Hittite

John Cowan wrote:


> The bulk of their characters are sound-changes; a few are morphological
> markers.
In that respect, probably the difference between OE and Gothic isn't so
crucial; though IIRC OE shows additional sound-changes that make e.g. the
strong-verb ablauts less transparent than in Gothic.

I think what discomfited most of the Cybalisters was the inclusion of
Germanic in the European satem node. Everyone agreed that BS and Gmc. had
certainly been _in contact_ but most thought that was the extent of it.

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