Re: Language tree rooted in Asia-Minor

WolfWolf wrote:
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> > > http://www.nature.com/nsu/031124/031124-6.html
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> > > Language tree rooted in Turkey
> > >
> > > Evolutionary ideas give farmers credit for Indo-European tongues.
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> > > The Kurgan might not be out of the picture entirely, says McMahon -
> > > they may have triggered a later wave of languages. "This isn't going
> > > to knock the debate on the head," she says.
> >
> > Who are these people trying to fool. There were NO SUCH people as the
> > Kurgans.
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> LIAR!!!
> "The Kurgan people were an Indo-European culture existing during the fifth, fourth,
> and third millennia BC; they lived in northern Europe, from Russia across Germany, 
> and
> various authorities have mounted a case for them being THE proto-Indo-European
> culture, from which all Indo-European cultures descend.

"Kurgan" is not the name of a people. It refers to a type of burial
mound.

The people who built kurgans are suggested by M. Gimbutas to have been
the speakers of Common Indo-European.
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Peter T. Daniels                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]