Re: [tied] Re: Mallory's New PIE Homeland?

Ned,

Your answer is appropriate yet the language of one's ancestors differs from that spoken by descendants. If the time period is that extended, the language spoken by the ancestors could be unintelligable to the living speakers (Old English or Middle English for example).

Does Proto I-E stop at the Caucasus?

Gerry

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Subject: [tied] Re: Mallory's New PIE Homeland?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@......> wrote: > Ned, > Doesn't the dispersal of a language equate to its homeland? Gerry, No, one is where it started from, the other is where its descendants ended up. >You aren't looking for the "original" (or first) speaker of I-E, >are you? I'm not looking for anything ;-) , but those looking for the PIE homeland are trying to determine where Proto-Indoeuropean was spoken before it fragmented and its descendants' expansion into new territory (as I understand it, there are good linguistic reasons for supposing that the original PIE-speaking homeland could not be as large as the subsequent areas inhabited by later speakers of IE languages). Ned