Re: [tied] Veneti

Piotr:
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:02:05 +0100 Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> writes:

> A good question :). What little is known about Venetic does not rule
> out its close relationship to Italic. "Illyrian" is virtually
> undocumented, but if the tradition according to which Messapic was
> an offshoot of Illyrian can be trusted, Illyrian may be another
> small branch related more closely to Italic (+ Venetic), Celtic and
> perhaps Lusitanian and Germanic than to the rest of IE.

So you would say that Germanic is related more closely to Celtic and
Italic than to Baltic and Slavic? I'm thinking of a chart of isoglosses
in Mallory's book that show Germanic as being closer to Baltic and
SLavic.

-Michael

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