Re: [tied] Check out Origin of Ancient Languages

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jpisc98357@...
> >
> > Somehow I just don't think that Latvian and the
> other Baltic languages which probably split with
> with German in the early 1st Millenium BC could be
> either ancestral or sister languages with Hittite,
> Pharonic Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Indus Valley
> or any other ancient language.
>
> (Piotr)They possibly branched off from Slavic about

1000

> BC, give or take a few centuries, but their genetic
> relationship to Germanic is more distant -- a common
> ancestor in the fourth millennium BC or so, more
> likely.

****GK: The above is a snippet from message 14731
(posted on August 29 2002). What are the arguments for
such an early emergence of Slavic (ca. 1300-700
BC?)****




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