Marc V:
>When do you seen the IEs coming to the Pontic area?
After 7000 BCE and certainly by 5500 BCE.
Marc V:
>Could Germanic have come from the East without ever having been in the
>Pontic area? cf. differences t:,k:>Germ.t,k, others(=Pontic?)>d,g etc.
Don't quite understand. Now you're talking about AFTER IE fractured into
dialects. As far as I understand IE spread out first before Germanic itself
ever formed from it. If IE came from the N Pontic-Caspian region, then... I
guess Germanic ultimately does too. ??
However, I don't think that we can judge the origins of dialects by how much
they retain archaicies. Afterall, how are we to judge what dialect is more
archaic-looking then the next. There are a million and one comparisons we
could make both for and against, for any dialect or language.
Then again, I could have completely misunderstood and rambled on yet again
:)
- gLeN
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