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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:
> The post and thread stemming from it can be found at
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In a thread, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
Albanio-Indo-Iranian (no date)
Albanian (several listed, split -600)
Indo-Iranian (-4600)
Indic (several, with some sub-structure, split -2900)
Iranian (several, with some sub-structure, split -2500)
http://groups.google.com/groups?
threadm=pan.2003.11.29.22.16.35.827303%40mail.utexas.edu
Peter T. Daniels suggests application of the algorithm to modern IE:
More relevant would be a comparison with Dyen, Kruskal, & Black, TAPS
82/5 (1992), which was designed to test lexicostatistical (not
glottochronological) technique by applying it to modern IE (so no
Anatolian or Tocharian), so that it would be useful in evaluating the
technique as applied to most of the families for which it's used.
It's unlikely that we have much of the 200-word list for Hittite and
maybe for Tocharian anyway, so how could they be included at all?
--
Peter T. Daniels
grammatim@...
The suggested Indic date is -2900.
If the alleged 'split' occurred in 2900 (I suppose it is Before
Common Era - BCE), the date is concordant with the the so-called
Harappan civilization (which I call Sarasvati Civilization because
2,000 or 80% of the 2600 sites are found on the banks of River
Sarasvati).
This make for the possibility of a linguistic area between circa
3000 BCE and 1500 BCE in the river basin: with Munda, Dravidian and
I-A speakers having it all worked out as artisan guilds, building
harmya (settlements, a R.gvedic word).
Kalyan