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Re: Indo-Hittite

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, June 2, 2003, 16:14
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From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 7:08 AM
Subject: 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.
Couldn't this hypothetical Proto-Balto-Slavo-Germanic language be a Centum language, later turning into Satem after Germanic has branched off? I saw a page on this in the Indo-European database, but that page seems to have gone missing...