From: "Glen Gordon" <
glengordon01@...>
> Steve:
> >You can see this tree at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~histling/
> Old English as a Satem language. That's in no way tabloid-like...
> Mental note: Don't attend any courses at UPenn.
Actually that chart shows that the satem/centum split didn't split across
groupings, since Greek is grouped with Armenian and Indo-Iranian, and
Germanic is grouped with Balto-Slavic. Albanian, which is the only known IE
language that preserves the five-way stop system and therefore is neither
strictly satem nor centum, is not anywhere in the charts!
I've seen a similar grouping drawn as an actual tree with branches curving
every which way, with Armenian curiously at the center, as though it's
closest to the "original" proto-language.
~Danny~