[tied] Re: Black Athena: The Afroasiatic RootsofClassicalCivilizati

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...>
wrote:http://www.panshin.com/trogholm/wonder/indoeuropean/indoeuropean4.html

>
> "And finally, there are the Greeks.
>
> We tend to take the Greeks for granted as the very epitome of European
> civilization. And yet the Greek language in many ways does not appear
> to be a European language at all. It is every bit as remote from
> other Indo-European languages as Armenian, Tocharian, or Hittite. It
> shows no obvious similarity to Thracian and Illyrian, its closest
> neighbors in classical times, or to present-day Albanian"
>
> "Genetically as well, the Greeks are closer to the people of Anatolia
> than to those of the northern Balkans. "
>

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Mr Melkar, it's a pointless task refuting the garbage that you so
diligently search out on the Web, but let me point out that Cybalist
is intended for professional linguists and for those like myself, who
are very far from expert linguists but accept the basic consensus of
the subject.
When you ask us to read material that dates PIE to 36000 BP you're
not generating any sympathy for whatever point of view you're trying
to get across.
If you can't recognize crank ideas, maybe you should consider just
keeping quiet.
Dan Milton