Re: A possible Homeland of the Indo-European Languages

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53586
Date: 2008-02-17

That's because they are hypotheses. What IE scholars
have done is eliminate the improbable and investigate
what's left. Ever hear of Occam's Razor? Scientists
use it all the time. Science is not a matter of blind
faith.


--- mkelkar2003 <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

> http://www.hjholm.de/
>
> 1.3. Since most scholars incline towards a homeland
> in the steppes
> north of the Black Sea ('Pontus', cf. e.g. Anthony
> 2001:13f), here is
> a somewhat outdated attempt of a >slide show of this
> first option. An
> updated version is only available as this single map
> graph >update
> map. Note that neither this Urheimat/homeland
> hypothesis, nor the
> dozens of other ones, nor the migration routes are
> in fact
> convincingly proven.
>
> M. Kelkar
>
>



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