Empires of the Silk Road

From: nemonemini@...
Message: 65857
Date: 2010-02-14

Was reading
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present, by C. Beckwith
with an interesting portrait of the Indo-European langauge question. The book has a quirky attitude toward modernity, of all things, but seems to clarify the linguistics issues of Indo-European.
Not being an expert on this, I might solicite opinions.