Re: Greek kitharis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <BMScott@> wrote:

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:

>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"
>>> <liberty@> wrote:

>>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:

>>>>> All known languages not currently classified as IE are
>>>>> actually from one branch of IE: Indo-Iranian.

>>>> What?!

>>> I did indeed mean it. [...]

>> PIE as Proto-World?! Even Ruhlen has more sense than that.

> I didn't say PIE was the original language, or the source of
> all languages ever spoken.

You did, however, say that it was the source of all known languages,
which is what is normally meant by 'Proto-World'.

Brian