The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

>
> [*] It's a thin line, of course, and some trains of thought can be

readily

> dismissed because of the impossibility of either the historical

scenario

> (even if some curious linguistic data exists) or because of the
> impossibility of the linguistics (even if the historical scenario

itself is

> plausible). So yes, a few Austronesian numerals look suspiciously

like PIE

> numerals, but no, there never were waves of Austronesians handing

out words

> all over the globe.

Because...?

Torsten