Re: Unity of Satem (was: a discussion on OIT)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
is only represented by Romance.

>
> I don't know how much this is due simply to Germanic fouling up the
> tree analysis. My feeling is that dialect continuums have simply

> Now, if Satem dialects had simply spread out from India, obliterating
> most intervening IE dialects as far as Central Europe, I would expect
> to see stronger evidence that the Satem dialects formed a genetic
> group. An Eastward Indo-Iranian expansion is just so much simpler.

See Nichols 1997 model.pdf in the files section. The expansion could
have happened in two waves. A later Iranian expansion may have severed
the continuity between Germanic and Balto Slavic.

M. Kelkar

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