From: etherman23
Message: 64206
Date: 2009-06-17
>Good luck with that.
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@> wrote:
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> > He/she would be better off comparing Turkic and PIE sound correspondences which is likely to be a more useful approach.
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> No, the idea is that Proto-Turkic is either Indo-Iranian or early Iranian. Comparing it to PIE is rather pointless, because of phonological and geographical distance, let alone the precariousness of the PIE reconstructions. It's seen as a Satem language (*Ser, *Su"re-q = hundred, heart) with no direct connections to the western IELs.
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