--- In nostratic@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> Gerry:
> >Where are linguists placing the homeland of Indo-European?
>
> It would seem that the great majority place it north of the Black

Sea,

> either further west in the Ukraine area or in the western edge of

the

> eurasiatic steppes. Then there is the Out-Of-Anatolia Hypothesis

that

> doesn't have as much support.
>
> Bomhard, thankfully, keeps to more mainstream ideas and doesn't

place the

> IE in Anatolia, nor does he have the language come out of Anatolia

in

> PreIE times.
>
>
> - love gLeN

Dear Glennie,
Who is locating "the homeland" north of the Black Sea other than
Madame Kuzmina (likely built on info from Gimbutas who placed it in
the Russian Steppe)? Ivanov and Gamkrelidze locate the Indo-Iranian
motherland in western Iran. John Croft (in his fantastic map that he
placed in the vault over on Cybalist) locates it in ?Morocco during
the Mesolithic with split movements to Spain and Egypt. Renfrew has
placed it in Turkey and Lamberg-Karlovsky in Pakistan. Polosmak has
placed it in the Altai. In a recent lecture at Stanford, J.P.
Mallory identified the Indo-European homeland not as a single
geographic spot but as a sweeping swatch of land extending from
Ireland/GB in the north to N. Africa in the south and extending
across Eurasia (via Egypt and the Middle East) to the Altai,
Mongolia, and Russia. He didn't include China or other East Asian
countries.

Love & Kisses,
Gerry