Re: [tied] Veneti

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Michael J Smith
<lookwhoscross-eyednow@...> wrote:

> 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.

Isoglosses don't matter much until you analyse them carefully. They
typically include lots of areal features and shared archaisms, neither
of which can be diagnostic of relatedness. For this reason it makes
little sense to count isoglosses.

Piotr