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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...> wrote:
>http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/Papers/81.2nakhleh.pdf
> Looking at their original tree Fig 7 I counted 5 CONTINUOUS nodes to
> IIr from the root. MORE THAN ANY OTHER BRANCH. What that means is the
> "PIE homeland" was in the Indian Subcontinent. They could to have
> moved the shortest distance to preserver such continuity.
> M. Kelkar
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First, I'd like to thank Mr. Kelkar for bringing the Nakhleh et
al. papers to our attention. The combination of advanced graphing
theory and solid linguistic input (as it appears to me as a nonexpert
in both fields)is most impressive, and I've got them bookmarked for
much closer study.
But the deduction in the paragraph quoted above seems staggeringly
illogical. If I'm missing something, please explain.
If the most nodes from the root reaches the branch closest to the
homeland (and might an Iranian find a slightly different location?),
then the next closest is Balto-Slavic, then Germanic, then
Greek-Armenian, Albanian, Italo-Celtic, and the farthest
Tocharian-Armenian.
Interesting geography!
Dan