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

Jan wrote:
>  --- 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.
Regardless of whether Nostratic theory holds liquids or not, it's likely
that PIE did have sister languages, however dead they may be now. Language
isolates aren't that common. Even Basque used to have at least one sister
(Aquitanian).

                                                      Andreas

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