Re: [tied] Greek+Slavic

From: P&G
Message: 38669
Date: 2005-06-16

>In fact, I beleive that generally Greek and slavic are not vrey close in IE
>context. I mean that Greek was formed >centures before slavic,

Our written records for Greek are centuries older than our written records
of Slavic - but we can't believe that Slavic popped suddenly into being when
the first written records appeared. Of course it existed somewhere at the
same time as Mycenaean Greek. You certainly can suggest that Greek has
changed less than Slavic, but that's a totally different question from how
closely related they are.

>greek:centum while >slavic:satem

This is a regional phenomenon, spreading from Indo-Iranian. It has no more
significance than the pronunciation of /r/ as apical trill, fricative or
velar across Italian, German, and French.

As for vocabulary, that does not prove how closely related languages are.
Consider English and French!

peter