Re: [tied] painfully obvious origins of IndoEuropean

>Marc V:
>>When do you seen the IEs coming to the Pontic area?
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>After 7000 BCE and certainly by 5500 BCE.
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>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.
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>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. ??
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>However, I don't think that we can judge the origins of dialects by how

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>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.
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>Then again, I could have completely misunderstood and rambled on yet again
>:)
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>- gLeN
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