Re: [tied] Mother of all IE languages

How their results exclude other homelands is a mystery to me. Even the dates
resulting from their esoteric calculations don't rule out the Balkans or the
Danube basin. The fact that those blokes use a glottochronological clock,
however sophisticated, raises familiar suspicions, only aggravated by the
fact that they are psychologists.

Piotr

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Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 7:21 PM
Subject: [tied] Mother of all IE languages


> Mother of all Indo-European languages was born in Turkey
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> PARIS (AFP/Wed Nov 26, 2:08 PM ET) -- The vast group of languages
> that dominates Europe and much of Central and South Asia originated
> around 8,000 years ago among farmers in what is now Anatolia, Turkey.
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> So say a pair of New Zealand academics who have remarkably retraced
> the family tree of so-called Indo-European languages -- a linguistic
> classification that covers scores of tongues ranging from Faroese to
> Hindi by way of English, French, German, Gujarati, Nepalese and Russian.
>
> Russell Gray and Quentin Atkinson, psychologists at the University of
> Auckland, built their language tree on the same principles as the theory
> of genetic evolution.
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> [.....]
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> http://grayatkinson.notlong.com
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> or
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1540&u=/afp/20031126/sc_afp/science_history_language_031126190851&printer=1
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> --
> rgds,
> George
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