07-13-2006, 04:59 AM
Post 70:
The extensive explanation is appreciated.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Perseus' connection to Persia was also polemically pointed out by the ancient Persians themeselves when they sought to subdue their peripheral greek extensions.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is most interesting indeed.
Your reference to linguistics quotations seem to indicate that there is a separate division, besides the usual one of Shatem and Centum.
If I understand it correctly, this new division puts the Indian, Iranian, Armenian and Greek languages together in one group whilst placing the other IE languages in another group.
Whereas the Shatem/Centum division had Indian and Iranian languages in the Shatem group with the Centum group lumping Greek together with other European languages?
Is this new division (Gr, Arm, Ir, In vs other IE) well-known and widely accepted? If so, it shows that different classification schemes of the same languages are possible and that things are actually far-less black-and-white than the Indologists make it.
The extensive explanation is appreciated.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Perseus' connection to Persia was also polemically pointed out by the ancient Persians themeselves when they sought to subdue their peripheral greek extensions.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->This is most interesting indeed.
Your reference to linguistics quotations seem to indicate that there is a separate division, besides the usual one of Shatem and Centum.
If I understand it correctly, this new division puts the Indian, Iranian, Armenian and Greek languages together in one group whilst placing the other IE languages in another group.
Whereas the Shatem/Centum division had Indian and Iranian languages in the Shatem group with the Centum group lumping Greek together with other European languages?
Is this new division (Gr, Arm, Ir, In vs other IE) well-known and widely accepted? If so, it shows that different classification schemes of the same languages are possible and that things are actually far-less black-and-white than the Indologists make it.