From: tgpedersen
Message: 16150
Date: 2002-10-11
> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>Given that the western Baltic languages (ie Old Prussian) are
> 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.
>