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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> I'd like to know what is the basis for the grouping of Albanian and
Germanic. And it would be interesting to include in this cladogram
languages like Illyrian, Ligurian, Lusitanian, Thracian, Phrygian.
>
> Joao SL
Refer to section 5 of the following:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/Papers/81.2nakhleh.pdf
"The most important difference between these five trees is the
placement of Germanic. Albanian can attach within a failry large
region of each tree with equally good fit."
M. Kelkar