[tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

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> > A.F
> > 1.
> > I have read that you can transpose word by word Sanscrit
> > into Lituanian and get decent Lituanian :
> > MAybe PIE has not even started splitting in fact !?
>
> What does 'transpose' mean?
>
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>
> Deivas davé dantis, Dievas duos duonas
>
> DEvas adada:t datas, Devas dat dha:na:s
>
> I guess this kind of code switch works bad with other languages.
>
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That old hack. You didn't answer th question.

> >
> > 3.
> > If you take the 100 word list as a base for a rough datation,
> > FRench versus Italian : 79 %
> > English versus German : 72 %
> > French against English/German : 34 or 35 %.
>
> Aha. So English split from German just before French split from
> Italian.
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> -7% is more than "just" : about 1 500 years.
>

If 7% is 1500 years then French split from Italian appr. 4500 years ago.


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