Re: [tied] Y chromosomes and IE Languages

Michal:

>[...] and no language splits (recordable today) within the
>proto-IE family accompanied those changes.

I've never heard of a language that doesn't fracture into dialects.
Certainly, even proto-IE would too, even if the other
"para-dialects" didn't survive.

>Then, about 8000-6000 BC (where? - I don't know, but this would
>be the only place where the PIE was heard, and this language
>could be very different from its initial stages), sudden social
>changes took place that allowed the spread of the daughter IE
>languages.

Social changes as in pastoralism and agriculture, sure.


- love gLeN



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