Hi Torsten,
> "Thracian" as a name of languages is on the same (historical) level
> as "Germanic". It might have been divided into dialects, but we
don't
> know.
Fine, but how do we know that the Getes spoke Thracian?
Are there anything written in Thracian?
What is the basical characteristics in Thracian? Is it IE? If so,
what evidence suggests this?
I think I read on this list that one of the substrate languages of
Albanian was Thracian, is it possible to find some information
anywhere in what parts of Albanian this is? What is the other
substrate language?
If some of the Thracian dialect had survived, we might now have
> had a Thracian group of languages, just as we have a Germanic group
> now, but they didn't.
If I interpret this hypothetical sentence correctly, could I take it
as that You mean that all IE languages are equally related to
eachother and to proto-IE, and that we are not to see that some of
the language families are more related to eachother and also in a
different degree related to PIE?
I really suppose not, since I normally understand your standpoint as
that the Germanic languages has a non-IE substrate language
consisting of something like a third of the lexical items.
I also thought that the figure was the about the same (30 percent)for
Greek.
Best wishes
Anders