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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting that the most western linguistic groups - Italic and Celtic - form a cluster related to the most Eastern group (Tocharian).


12 posted on 01/09/2009 10:46:43 AM PST by ZULU ( TRAPPED IN NEW JERSEY!!! Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: ZULU

One of the reasonable speculations about Proto-Indo-European is that, based on a lack of a common root word for large bodies of water (the ones used were either loanwords or made up when needed), the PIE speakers came from a place that didn’t have them, such as Central Asia (which is the most likely origin). :’)


13 posted on 01/09/2009 1:33:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (First 2009 Profile update Tuesday, January 6, 2009___________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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