>Greek and Indo-Aryan shared a lot of structure, including similar
inflections, lots of >cognate stems, etc., even some shared poetic formulae.
And that was after some 3000 >years of independent development
Not all independent. There is quite a body of innovative material shared by
Greek and I-I that would make them seem more similar than either of them
would be to another IE langauge of the same age, if we knew it.
Peter