Re: Belgs

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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> > It's hard to say anything on these two statements.
> > I don't understand (nor know) which is your scenario of IE split
> > and framework.
> >
> > What does native mean ?
> >
> > If you don't provide a clear (even though provisional) scenario,
> > not a single one of your statements makes any sense.
> >
> Well, I don't do grands projets. I try to reconstruct backwards from
> what we know historically, not forwards. And I haven't gotten
> further back than Veneti.
> Torsten
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> It's becoming impossible to even understand what you are talking
> about.

I am sorry to hear that.

> You cannot escape the fact that PIE existed somewhere sometime and
> afterward split in dialects (like East and West) and then specific
> groups like Celtic, Italic, Baltic, Greek etc.

I wasn't trying to.

> So where do the goddamn Veneti fit into the general picture of IE
> languages ?
> Are they IE in the first place and why ?

The goddamn Venetic language is most likely a centum IE language which
fits in along Greek Latin, Proto-Germanic, East Baltic, West Baltic,
Slavic etc.


Torsten