Alex:
>Glen, in your opinion , where is the cradle of PIE to find?
Oh wait, sorry Alex. Perhaps you meant where was pre-IE at any
given point in time? If so, I think that IndoTyrrhenian,
ancestral to Tyrrhenian and IE, travelled from Central Asia
to the area north of the Black Sea between 8500 and 7000 BCE.
From there, Tyrrhenian moved further west and south to the
Balkans, while IE stayed where it was.
It was in Central Asia circa 9000 BCE that I think the ancestor
to IE, Uralic and Altaic resided. That would make reconstructed
Uralic and IE divergeant by approximately 5000 years -- almost
as much as the difference between Modern Greek and English,
let's say.
- gLeN
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