I was just reading Joseph Salmons' article on the
IE-ness of Gmc and this stuck out
1) Representation of selected branches among Pokornys
IE etymologies (Bird 1982)
Germanic 67.4%
Hellenic 60.4%
Baltic 53.7%
Indic 49.3%
If Indic has the smallest percentage of IE vocabulary,
how can anyone rationally claim it to be the center of
IE?
I realize Pokorny is dated but it's the relative
numbers that count.
BTW: How do other languages rate?
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