---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <flavianops@...> wrote :
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> I should have perceived that. I agree with you that *reconstructed*
PIE is a little "fictional," despite that PIE as defined as the
proto-language Hittite, Latin, Sanskrit, Greek, &c come from, is
a well-founded theory.
I don't think so. In fact, Hittite (Anatolian) morphology is more archaic than the rest. In my opinion, the classical genealogical tree for modelling language relationship is a simplification, and in the particular case of the IE family a *huge* one. I think this family is the result of several (and often complicated) expansions and language replacement processes over several millenia. So actually there were not just one but *several* proto-languages.