Re: [tied] GLEN AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC

Glen Gordon" wrote (Wed Mar 19, 2003  12:59 am) message 20052
<<...with other language groups being once more WIDESPREAD, language groups
such as Hattic and Hurro-Urartian.>>

Glen Gordon writes (Wed Mar 19, 2003  3:16 pm) message 20086
<<First, I never said anything about "widespread".>>

Now let me ask again, who's confused?

Glen Gordon also writes:
<<Only a single IE dialect group (namely Anatolian) is centered in Anatolia
while the remainder of IE is found elsewhere. Hattic and Hurro-Urartian are
ONLY attested in Anatolia. The solution is quite apparent.>>

Yes, the solution is to realize that whether Hattic and Hurro-Urartian were
spoken only in Anatolia or around the world, there is NO reason to think that
either fact would somehow eliminate early IE also being spoken in the rather
large land mass called Anatolia.

Anatolia is larger in size than New Guinea where over 30,000 languages were
spoken by different hunter-gatherers group (which is what Hattic and
Hurro-Urartian would have been in 7500BC). Hattic and Hurro-Urartian does
NOT eliminate the presence of IE.

There is NO linguistic evidence that will tell you anything different.

<<Only a single IE dialect group (namely Anatolian) is centered in Anatolia
while the remainder of IE is found elsewhere.>>

Only a single Spanish dialectic group is centered in Spain. The remainder of
Spanish is found elsewhere. That should tell you that Spanish must have come
to Spain from somewhere else, possibly Argentina.

Steve Long