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...