From: Gevork Kherlopian
Message: 13540
Date: 2002-04-28
> We speak not of IE, but about proto IE who were in__________________________________________________
> the
> area from 10 000 BC. Each IE language has its
> layers.
> The remnants of PIE are on the first strata which
> has
> been just started to be revealed. At least we know
> that most of the plant name of that has reached from
> that strata belong to that area. Mankind lived in
> that
> area, The Armenian Plateau, has been inhabited
> millions and millions years ago. The findings
> indicate
> the existence of neither mongoloids, nor negroids,
> but
> IE bone structures of the skull and body. At the
> same
> time the area, even before the Bronze age, has been
> a
> point of interaction of many tribes not only of IE
> but
> of semitic, negroid, Caucasian even mongoloid
> origin.
>
> --- x99lynx@... wrote:
> > Glen wrote:
> > <<The fact remains that there is no trace of
> > IndoEuropean or ANY Steppe
> > language to be found in Anatolia when writing
> first
> > begins.>>
> >
> > QUICK CORRECTION: When writing "first begins" in
> > Anatolia, it IS in a
> > Indo-European language. I believe the earlier
> > Assyrian texts (@1900) which
> > apparently showed first evidence of IE (in
> Anatolia)
> > were found in modern
> > Syria. It may be asking too much on the other hand
> > for the very first first
> > writing, in Sumerian Mesopotamia, to evidence
> > language elsewhere.
> >
> > Not that any of this is particularly probative of
> > anything in 7500BC. But if
> > one invokes the first writing as some kind of
> better
> > evidence, then when we
> > ACTUALLY have DIRECT AND VERIFIABLE evidence of
> any
> > language in central or
> > western Anatolia, it is IE. And since this is the
> > first direct evidence of
> > IE, one might question whether it is strictly
> > appropriate to call it a
> > "Steppe" language. (Except to the extent that the
> > plateau of central Asia
> > Minor for 1000's of years BC is classifiable as
> > "steppic".)
> >
> > S.
> >
>
>
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