Re: Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language

Joao,

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> Science24 August 2012:
> Vol. 337 no. 6097 pp. 957-960
> DOI: 10.1126/science.1219669
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> ps: The main result is the phylogeography: First branch, Anatolian; second branch, Tocharo-Armenian; third branch, Indo-Iranian + Greco-Albanian; 4th branch, Balto-Slavic, and last branches, Germanic, Italic and Celtic. I'd like to see you comments..
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What were the Germanic and Italic speakers speaking before their language became a branch?

Regards,
Shivraj