Re: Conlangs on based Slavic languages...etc

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, John Cowan wrote:

> In the end, Hittite hasn't had that much of an effect on PIE, and most
> IE-ists simply use the null hypothesis that it is one more branch much
> like the rest.  The cladistic work at UPenn, however, which is focused
> on finding binary branching points, does identify Hittite as maximally
> distinct from the other IE languages -- but the identification rests on
> a single characteristic.
I thought Hittite was supposed to maintain the older active:inactive
gender system and at least some of the laryngeals that no other IE
language did?

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