Re: Can Armenian and Greek IE language lineages be on the same branc

From: Tavi
Message: 71234
Date: 2013-06-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" wrote:
>
> There are several signs of mutual influence between Indo-Iranian,
Armenian and Greek. While it is quite possible that Greek and Armenian
were of a common branch, the evidence is not very strong. Much IE
subgrouping evidence is weak, suggesting rapid fragmentation into
multiple groups. Gray & Atkinson quoted a 'Bayesian posterior
probability' of 40% for the grouping, which is not overwhelming.
>
Apparently, Phrygian belongs to the same group than Greek and Armenian.
Also Albanian (or rather its Dacian or Daco-Mysian ancestor) has been
proposed to be a near relative of Indo-Iranian.