Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

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> At 12:39:05 PM on Saturday, September 29, 2007, tgpedersen
> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> > <gabaroo6958@> wrote:
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> [...]
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> >> Germanic began to split up sometime around 500 BC, right?
>
> > No. Runic has been characterized as almost pure
> > Proto-Germanic,
>
> It has also been suggested that runic, like ogam, was more
> conservative than the spoken language.

As a koine, Runic was hardly older than the the use of runes.

> > and Grimm hasn't yet happened in some locales in Western
> > Germania in Caesar's time, so much later, eg. 50 BCE.
>
> Geographic spread alone is a good indication that
> noticeable dialect differentiation must have begun earlier
> than that.

Obviously you must have some idea of dispersion speed of your own.
Where does that come from?


Torsten