Re: New Family tree is constructed for Indo European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

>
> 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

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I believe we've discussed more than once the work of Ringe,
Taylor, and Warnow, as it appears in publications more recent than the
one that led to the 1996 NY Times article Melkar found.
Applying the breath-taking illogic of his last paragraph, the
homeland of Proto-Indo-European must be either in India or Europe or
Protem (a small town near the Cape of Good Hope).
Dan