Re: Conlangs on based Slavic languages...etc

CC = Constentin Cornomorus
J = Joe

CC> Indo-Hitite; according to some linguisticians,

How is a "linguistician" different from a "linguist"?

CC> Hittite is not an IE language, but is a sister
CC> language of IE. As far as the internal history is
CC> concerned, it's simply "Aryan".

J> Of course, that is quite a silly definition.  The very term 'Indo-European',
J> AFAIK, means all the recorded languages in that family(that can be proven to
J> be related).

The term "Indo-European" refers to all the languages descended from the
ancestor language "Proto-Indo-European".  If Hittite were a sibling of
PIE rather than a child, then it would not be part of the I-E family.
But I think it is considered to be an IE language, on its own branch.

-Mark

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