[tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 29271
Date: 2004-01-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
> At any rate, any direct contact between Sumerian and IndoEuropeans
> at any date is absurd.

Why is it more ridiculous than contact between Semitic and pre-Indo-
European? Or are you restricting contact with pre-Sumerian to Indo-
Tyrrhenian?

Richard.