Re: Neanderthal and PIE

My conlangs are all meant to be spoken on a planet that was seeded
from human stock by some unknown aliens about 10,000 years ago.  Long
enough ago that I don't have to worry too much about their languages
(all a priori) being believable relatives of P-I-E, but close enough
that there might be the occasional discernible relationship.

As far as the Neanderthal lang, what if you posit that Neanderthals
transmit language to their children more faithfully than their
Cro-Magnon successors?  Perhaps due to their creative skills lying in
a different area, the teaching process is more direct and thorough.
Then P-I-E could have been spoken as Neanderthalese for untold
centuries, changing much more slowly than modern human langs, before
being picked up and subjected to relatively rapid generational change
by H. sapiens.

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