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To: proxy_user

The Indo-European tongues don’t have a common term for large bodies of water, which is believed to point to an origin in Central Asia. Each branch of the group picked up different loanwords for ocean and sea. :’)


17 posted on 02/14/2015 2:29:07 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like the steppe theory of Indo-European origins is winning out over the Anatolian theory, unless the earlier middle eastern farmers that spread into Europe were also Indo-European.


19 posted on 02/16/2015 1:35:14 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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