Re: [tied] Reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:23:40 +0200 (CEST), sacha ghozzi <ghozzis@...>
wrote:

>Thanks Miguel,
>A funny idea comes to my mind:
>do you think that, for example, a linguist who would have studied Indo-European
>enough could "speak" with an individual of this "indo-european tribe", if, he
>came back in time 7000 years ago? Is the research in this linguistic field so
>far as to enable it?

Hard to say, obviously. I would expect some knowledge of *PIE as currently
reconstructed would enable one to pick up the language as it actually was
spoken faster.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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