Re: [tied] Genetic Link between Albanian and Romanian

Passé or not, it is/was an important concept...that didn't used
Swadesh List.
You obviously used "similarities" here...BUT I dind't used such a
term above...Please read my text again.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 02-02-04 22:32, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > One more question here related to your very sure opinion :
> > "Nonsense".
> > Satem / Centum split : the most important division of INDO-
> > EUROPEAN languages was detected based on the "Swadesh Lists" or
> > Based on the PHONETICAL SYSTEMS OF THESE LANGUAGES???
>
> "The Satem/Centum split" is a passé concept, and certainly not "the

most

> important division" within IE. Genetic groupings are not based on
> phonetic _similarities_.
>
> Piotr