Re: On Non-Linguistic IE Languages

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> ****GK: ...... It would be even more helpful if you
> demonstrated on purely linguistic grounds how it was
> possible for so many IE families to arise in the first
> let's say 2500 years of the saga, and why we haven't
> seen anything similar occur in the last 2500 years.
> Something went wrong with "purely linguistic"
> dynamics?****

The distinct families didn't arise in the first 2500 years, only
distinct _languages_. The process is the same in both periods. It's
only the _additional_ 2500 years of differentiation that creates the
families, retroactively.

IKP