Re: [tied] painfully obvious origins of IndoEuropean

>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. ??

I meant: perhaps Germanic, as opposed most IE languages (IE sensu stricto =
"Pontic IE"), did not reach the Pontic area (coming from the East) but
"directly" went to N-Europe. Just a thought. Not very likely if IYO IEs
lived in the Pontic area by 5500 BC.

Marc