Re: [tied] Why is PIE more centum than satem?

> Is the suggested overlap consistent with the non-overlapping
> chronology suggested by Piotr?

Yes. Vedic Sanskrit is likely to be about 1200 BCE = 3200 BP. In making
this assertion I must eschew all claims to knowledge for myself, and simply
follow a consensus of reasonable scholarly advice, both from Sanskritists
such as Whitney, MacDonnell, and Coulson, and IE linguists such as Baldi and
Beekes. There is no conflict with Piotr, who also puts Vedic Sanskrit at
about this time. The Greek material is attested from about 1500 BCE to 1200
BCE, which means it may be slightly earlier than Vedic, but there is still
plenty of room for overlap.

Peter

> > wrote:... Indo-Iranian
> material is much> harder to date, for various reasons, but the best
> guesses seem to be that> both Avestan and Vedic overlap with the
> earliest Greek material as well.> This means that the three language
> groups should be thought of as rough> contemporaries, and we are
> wrong if we think that Hittite reflects an> earlier stage simply
> because it is attested from a slightly earlier period.
>
> Is the suggested overlap consistent with the non-overlapping
> chronology suggested by Piotr?
>
> > 7600 BP --- PIE
> > 6500 BP --- non-Anatolian IE
> > 5000 BP --- Proto-Satem
> > 4600 BP --- Proto-Indo-Iranian
> > 4000 BP --- Proto-Indo-Aryan
> > 3700-3200 BP --- Rigvedic Indo-Aryan
> > 3200-2500 BP --- late Old Indo-Aryan
> > 2500-900 BP --- Middle Indo-Aryan
>