Re: [tied] Mother of all IE languages

From: P&G
Message: 27853
Date: 2003-11-30

Shouldn't this have raised a few eyebrows:

>The resulting tree matches many existing ideas about language
>development. Spanish and Portuguese come out as sisters, for
>example - both are cousins to German, and Hindi is a more distant
>relation to all three.

In what way is Hindi a "more distant" relation to Spanish-Portuguese than
German?

Peter