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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:
> I understand it quite well. See where Armenian and Albanian are in the
> Atkinson Gray chart below. It is not possible to maintain a European
> homeland theory with that tree.
>
http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/Psych/research/Evolution/Gray&Atkinson2003.pdf
What stops the Crimea having been Proto-Graeco-Armenian? Recall the
reconstruction of a Graeco-Armenian-Aryan sprachbund.
However, looking at the numbers onm the tree in black, a
Graeco-Armenian family is a far from inescapable conclusion. A
reasonable, but less well supported position, in that Greek split off
from core-PIE (i.e. PIE less Anatolian and Tocharian) before Armenian
did. Another thing to remember is that a branching model may not be
particularly good at this stage of Indo-European dispersal.
Richard.