Re: Diphthongs

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Since we are here, one has to mention that Duridanov sees a lot of
> correspondancies between Baltic and Thracian but he affirms
> too "there is no corresponance between Slavic and Thracian". That
> will mean the contact between Baltic and Slavic are all of later
> nature, somewhere in the christian time. Does it fit in the Baltic-
> Slavic relationship on the timeline?

My answer to that is a simple no. Before a certain point in time,
Baltic and Slavic were one. But the Baltic languages have not been
under so much influence from Iranian and Greek as has Slavic, so many
old words are only retained in Baltic. That means of course that
isoglosses with other branches tend to involve "Baltic alone" more
often than "Slavic alone".

Jens