From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 47419
Date: 2007-02-11
----- Original Message -----From: Max DashuSent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 3:21 PMSubject: [tied] Re: From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phylogenetic inference?Torsten,
I'm in agreement with what you say here but am interested in what
sources you are drawing on.
Max
>Those people who left a trail of destroyed fortifications and general
>disruption behind them in South Eastern Europe are assumed to have
>spoken IE languages, because nothing on that scale is documented from
>a later period, so if IE languages are intrusive in Europe, those
>people most likely brought them here. Also, the timing of the
>incursions matches generally that of the Kurgan hypothesis.
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What evidence can be brought against the idea that the invading hordes conquered people already speaking IE languages, putting aside for the moment what language the invaders themselves spoke?
Patrick
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