[tied] Re: From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phyl

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

>
> On 2007-02-06 19:38, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > The Iranians didn't make a detour through the steppes. They lived on
> > them. Don't let the present geographical term Iran fool you. Even
> > today the Iranian languages Tadzhik and Pashtu are spoken outside of
> > Iran.
>
> Not to mention Kurdish, the Pamir languages and the two surviving NE
> Iranian languages related to the Scytho-Sarmatian complex of the
> Pontic-Caspian steppes: Yaghnobi (the descendant of Sogdian) and

Ossetic

> (the descendant of Alanic), still farther afield.
>
> Piotr
>

Looking at the tree in Fig 3 of Atkinson et. al. (2005) that is not
incompatible with a South Asian homeland for the non-Anatolian
branches.

M. kelkar