Re: Kentum/satem (was: The future of Sturnan)

 --- Keith wrote:

> PIE sister languages? Huh? I didn't think there was anything like that?
There is such a theory, that links some big language families with each other.
IIRC: Indo-European, Uralic, Altaic, Semitic, Caucasian, Etruscan, and perhaps a
few others. They call it "Nostratic".
I don't know how widely this theory is accepted among scientists; I know too
little about it to give my own opinion. But if it were true, it would mean that
Proto-Indo-European actually did have sister languages.

Danny, please enlighten us...

Jan

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