Re: [tied] Re: "Satem" Law

From: P&G
Message: 24649
Date: 2003-07-18

>>>after a transitional
> > > period of Balto-
> > > Slavic "community", the linguistic ancestors of the
> > > Slavs got
> > > separated from the Balts and became an autonomous
> > > ethno-linguistic
> > > entity sometime about or just after the year 1000
> > > B.C."

There are some linguists who insist that Balts and Slavs were one group at
one time, others insist that they were never one group. The evidence
supports either conclusion (despite the passion with which some insist that
they are right).

Peter