Re: Neanderthal and PIE

2008/10/12 Ollock Ackeop <ollock@...>

> No dice.  No explanation is given for the ridiculous lag in linguistic
> change that
> would be necessary for a language spoken by a predominantly Neanderthal
> society to have a demonstrable relationship to PIE.
>
> Even if you made Neanderthals survive up to the time of the Indo-Europeans,
> their language would still have changed beyond recognition.  So you'd have
> your Neanderthal - PIE, but you wouldn't be able to say it was related to
> anything that the Neanderthals would have spoken in the real world.
>
If we can prove that Albanian is related to PIE spoken 12,000 years ago, is
it too difficult to believe that a Neanderthal Language could have had some
relation with PIE spoken 12,000 later?

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