Re: [tied] Re: Did IE languages spread before farming?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 9327
Date: 2001-09-10

 
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From: S.Kalyanaraman
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 12:16 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Did IE languages spread before farming?

> Why not? Did IE start from a vacuum? What was the state of language prior to the last glaciation?
 
Meaning when? You can't do IE linguistics with reference to pre-proto-proto-IE times.
 
> What is the starting set of IE words? Did they have 'farming' words?
 
Plenty of them, which shows the IEs to have been a Neolithic culture.
 
> Or, 'glacier' words?

None, as far as I know.
 
Piotr




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