From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 57111
Date: 2008-04-10
> The contradictory proposals that IE were wandering nomads andNeither Proto-Indo-European nor Sanskrit either one is as complex
> yet were held to have originated from a specific abode, and that
> they were primitive tribesmen and yet were able to formulate and
> utilize a language as intricate and complex as Indo European is
> a fallacy at best.
as some modern languages spoken by peoples generally considered
fairly technologically primitive._______________________I'm a latecomer to this thread, but this point you make is interesting to me. Could you please identify any of these modern languages as intricate and complex as Proto-Indo-European or Sanskrit yet spoken by peoples generally considered fairly technologically primitive?Andrew