[Skywalk]

No, Sanskrit is an ancient Indo-European language as far I know.

In fact, Indo-European is just a catch-all, there may have been some proto-languages around that area, but I doubt it started with just this group of neolithic farmers. Likely it had a few epicenters and as it spread the branches spread out(romance, Greek, German, etc)

[hleewilder]

Kinda makes you wonder doesn't it? When you've got basically a 'farmer's language' that forms the basis of modern Western languages, it makes you wonder if the so-called 'cognates' or basic language 'markers' didn't have a lot to do with the various kinds of manure people would encounter as they migrated out of the Anatolian valleys.

'Well' said Bubba 'You've got you're chickenshit, you've got you're bullshit, horseshit, shit-on-a-shingle; there's water buffalo shit, yak shit, pig shit, as well as your batshit, and a hundred and twenty five kinds of rodent shit..."