New Family tree is constructed for Indo European

From: mkelkar2003
Message: 44356
Date: 2006-04-21

http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~froetsch/linguistik/NYT_article.html

"But Dr. Ringe noted that before this study, he believed, contrary to
his findings, that the Indo-Hittite hypothesis was wrong. "It might
even be fair to say that I was biased against it," he said. "So you can
imagine how startled I was when the algorithm kept turning up Anatolian
as one first-order branch of the family, and everything else as the
other first-order branch -- exactly what the hypothesis says.""

"The first surprise was that in all four trees, the Anatolian language
group immediately split away from Proto-Indo-European, just as the Indo-
Hittite hypothesis has held."

The homeland for the Indo-Hittite family must by definition be either
in India or Anatolia. It cannot be in Europe.

M. Kelkar