Missing link in Indo-European languages' history found (phys.org)
from ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to archaeology@mander.xyz on 06 Feb 2025 14:32
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lvxferre@mander.xyz on 06 Feb 2025 18:52 collapse

I cross-posted this in the Linguistics comm (!linguistics@mander.xyz), with a few additional comments. Might as well share them here:

There’s an earlier study from the Max Plank Society that estimates the family to be 8k years old (this one gives makes it 6kyo). That study was using a glottochronology technique; it gives you a decent guess about the age of a family/branch, but this one gives you actual data instead.

And yet both kind of mix the Caucasian and Steppes hypotheses - with Early PIE in the Caucasus, Late PIE in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.

ZeroCool@slrpnk.net on 06 Feb 2025 19:55 collapse

Ah, I wasn’t aware of that community, thank you!

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 06 Feb 2025 19:56 collapse

Discloser: I’m one of the mods there :)

Feel welcome to post everything language there!

ZeroCool@slrpnk.net on 06 Feb 2025 21:57 collapse

Well, I’m a big fan of the sciences so I spend a lot of time reading mander.xyz communities, subbed, I’ll contribute whenever I come across something relevant.