Re: Can relationships between languages be determined after 80,000 y

Can relationships be determined after even 7000 years?
If Sanskrit and all ancient writings hadn't existed,
would the Indo-European family have been readily discoverable?

James Allen
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The method of looking for stable phonetic correspondances
is theoritically independent of any time-limit.
The pratical problem is the growing opacity of cognacy.

Imagine you had only Tokharian, Armenian and Irish...

Arnaud
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