Re: [tied] Re: Why India?

> what could have made *PIE so much more attractive
> or effective than those other relatives that it alone survived and

prospered?

>What advantage did speaking an indo-european
> language have ...

The spread of IE languages may have nothing whatever to do with the
language. It might just be that its speakers were better at beating people
up. Why did the Latin speaking Romans conquer Italy rather than the
Etruscan speaking Etruscans, who had been there longer? I don't think the
answer lies in the language they spoke!

Peter