Re: Witzel and Sautsutras (was: Mapping the Origins and Expansion of

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:

>
> Keep in mind that in English, shiv means "knife." But if he just read

Wikipedia to start with, follow its sources, he might arrive at a
linguistic understanding of the history of languages. Knowing a language
as a native speaker doe not give one any special insight into its
origins.

> Among items that I offered, Shiv doesn't tell why retroflexed

consonant sets do not show up in IE languages that are not from the
subcontinent.

>

I'd also add voiced aspirated stops to the pack. AFAIK, they didn't
exist outside of Indic, in despite of IE-ists reconstructing them for
PIE since 19th Neogrammarians.