[Little Bill]

The difficulty I see is that Hittite is heavily over laid with Luuvian, Non Indoeuropean. If you look at the distribution of Indoeureopean languages the central point seems to be Blams favoriate, Eastern Shore of the Black Sea.

[LiteKeeper]

Origin of language: try the Garden, as God walked with Adam in the cool of the day.

[proxy_user]

So does this mean white people can no longer be referred to as 'Caucasian'?

Looks like it, if those Kurgan horsemen take a licking in the equations. We can call ourselves 'Anatolian' and confuse everyone.

[blam]

Previous thread on the same subject.

Mother of all Indo-European Languages Was Born In Turkey

[Amelia]

You probably knew this already.

[samtheman]

"The characteristics of languages and biomolecular sequences evolve in very different ways," says Tandy Warnow, a computer scientist at the University of Texas, Austin. Gray and Atkinson "used techniques that are not appropriate for their data."

Like counting apples as oranges.

[Styria]

I sat in a little bit of a course on Proto-Indo-European. That professor said that Hittite is a sister language of that one, not one of its daughters, with the common ancestor Proto-Indo-Hittite.

[SunkenCiv]

S.M. Stirling from Santa Fe, NM -- A recent edition of "British Archaeology" noted that the ideological prejudice against the idea of population movements among British archaeologists had gotten to the point where some postgraduate student would soon come up with a paper 'proving' that the first humans in Britain weren't immigrants at all, but purely indigenous, symbolically transformed reindeer. [Amazon reader review]

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Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins by Colin Renfrew

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Henchman]

8700 years ago coincides with the exact date the Tower of Babble being destroyed by advancing Republican forces. Indeed, "linguists prefer a competing theory, which traces Indo-European languages to Kurgan horsemen in southern Russia about 6000 years ago." Kurgan is closely related to Klingon.

[PoorMuttly]

Muttly family tradition states that it was started by a talking dog who sold pistacio nuts from a flying carpet...but I digress.....

Ain't science great?!

Actually, me love this stuff...very exciting to be living in this time. Postulate ON, ye humans. (we get a kick out of it)

[SunkenCiv]

a couple of graphics posted somewhere on FR by FReeper Cronos, each one set to width of 600 (try opening each one in new window if that bugs you):

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