Re: [tied] Re: The physical type of proto-Indo-Europeans

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From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 5:15 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: The physical type of proto-Indo-Europeans

>   Group 4: A group speaking a _Uralic_ language, and ethnically
resembling modern Northern Germanic peoples (Swedes, Danes,
Norwegians, and Northern Germans; some Poles; some Balts; and Finns,
situated at the beginning of historical times in North_eastern_
Europe) (Uralic);

You'd have to account somehow for the fact that none of the non-IE
substrate words in the languages spoken today within that area are
Uralic.

 

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Patrick:

 

Well, I cannot do it. I can guess Basque or whatever was there but I see no proof for the language affinities of what we think  may be substrate.

 

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>   Group 5: A group speaking an _Austronesian_ language, and
ethnically resembling modern Dravidians, and Asian islanders,
situated at the beginning of historical times along the Asian coast
(Austronesian).
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>   One might notice the absence of a couple of languages one might
expect: PIE and Semitic.
>

And Sino-Tibetan. And Austro-Asiatic. And Indo-Pacific.


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Patrick:

 

As Bush would say, it is a "security" matter. I am not going to speculate publicly yet.

 

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