Re: POLL: The Branch Most Closely Related to Germanic

My "touw>tooi" (cord>ornament) ideas suggest that the corded ware beaker
cultures in N-Europe spoke Germanic or Balto-Slavic & that the bell beakers
in W-Europe, which are derived from the corded ware beakers, spoke
Celt-Italic. So IMO Germanic is closest to its geographic neighbours:
Celto-Italic & Balto-Slavic (in your list: 3, 4 and 6). (But Germanic
underwent perhaps more substrate influences than the others.) --Marc

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>There position of Germanic within IE has been the subject of some

controversy in recent years. Which of the following IE groups seems to you
to be the closest cousin of Germanic? Please select one or more of the
following:

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>1 o Anatolian
>2 o Armenian
>3 o Baltic, Slavic, or Balto-Slavic
>4 o Celtic
>5 o Indic, Iranian, or Indo-Iranian
>6 o Italic
>7 o Tocharian
>8 o none of the above; G. stands apart
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>by going to the following Web form:
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> http://www.egroups.com/vote?id=941712014125
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>Thank you!