Re: Bart

Am 13.06.2012 15:00, schrieb Tavi:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com <mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
> >
> > Macedonian looks like a centum language to me,
> >
> A close rleative of Greek according to Georgiev.
>

the supposition of Georgiev... ok, at least we have been told know that
Macedonian could not be understood by
by the greeks..

>
>
> > with Daco-Thracian a satem group relatively close to Balto-Slavic.
> >
> I don't think such a node exists. From toponomastic evidence, it looks
> like Dacian and Thracian were quite different languages, the former
> being the ancestor of Albanian and a relative of Indo-Iranian. On the
> other hand, Thracian appears to have a 3 series-stop system (voiceless
> aspirated/voiceless/voiced) similar to the ones of Germanic and
> Armenian, which I regard as more archaic and not "shifted" as in the
> traditional view.
>

you are not the only who thinks that way, yet regarding the Thracians
and Dacians,
the ancients have clearely stated that they speak the same language. So,
what
do we do now? We ignore the testimony of someone who lived in that time
in order
to believe a construct of us in modern times?


regards


Alex