[tied] Re: Bangani

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

> My opinion is that as the Satem innovation spread in the eastern
> part of "Indo-Europia", it left a residue of isolated Centum
> dialects in the east: the "Hellenoid" languages (Greek, Macedonian,
> Phrygian) close to the Euxine, the Tocharian languages on the
> easternmost fringe, plus God knows what else.

This has the corollary that either the satem development was later
than usually assumed, or that IE spread southeast of Aral Sea was
earlier (with the question of any relation with IA speakers). That
is to say, IE speakers could have been present in presentday
Afghanistan/Kashmir or even further east by 2500 BCE. This is
comepletely immaterial to IE studies, but there are others to whom
this is unacceptable.