Re: Greek kitharis

On 2009-01-01 11:00, tgpedersen wrote:

> Ok, so what you're saying is that the language families usually
> considered independent of IE, eg. Uralic, Semitic, Austronesian,
> Basque, Kartvelian, Uto-Aztecan, Bantu, Khoi-San, are in fact IE? That
> is a very unusual point of view.

More specifically, they are Indo-Iranian, which is even more
revolutionary. It seems to mean that, e.g. Sanskrit is more closely
related to Navajo than it is to Greek or Latin (unless Greek and Latin
are Indo-Iranian too).

Happy New Year, everyone,

Piotr