Re: IE common traits

Mr Odegard,

You have written some things in your answer to Sabine Ivanovas that claim
for a detailed explanation and for the sources for your claims, if possible.

1."In broad terms all human languages are most likely descended from a
single language." What makes you so sure of that???

2. Who is Greenberg?

3."No one really disputes the idea that the world's languages can be placed
in such supergroups."
When I wanted to discuss the Nostratic question with my professor Wojciech
Smoczynski in Krakow he said it was a was waste of time.
Besides, how can everybody be so sure of something to be true if the methods
that should prove it are so contradictory?
I've often heard Illych-Svytich critisized.

4.What do you mean by "the falling-together of proto-Indoeuropean"? I must
confess I've never heard of this and I'd wish to learn more about this
(what? a hypothesis?).

I'd appreciate the bibliography for these topics, especially the last one.

Greetings from Slovenia,
Simona

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