> Hm, according to an old Britannica entry laying around on my HD, Indic
isn't
> even a branch but a subbranch of Indo-Iranian ... Anyways, are there
> differences between the Indic languages comparable to those between, say,
> Germanic and Greek? I would put to much weight to those numbers of
languages -
> most of those Indic ones are only dialects of, presumeably, Hindi on the
Army-
> and-Navy test anyway!
>
> > Traditionally the German name for IE was Indogermanisch, although from
> > a
> > purely geographical standpoint Indokeltisch would have been more like
> > it.
>
> The idea was to have the easternmost and westermost branches indicated in
the
> name, wasn't it? I'm then severly tempted to suggest "Slavogermanic", 'cos
of
> Chukchia and Alaska ...
But the native languages of Chukchia and Alaska are Chukotko-Kamchatkan and
Eskimo-Aleut, respectively.