Comments on: Expansion – 2.000 BC

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sat, 14 May 2011 10:26:53 +0000

Sanskrit is not a natural language, it is an artificial language derived from Vedic and created by Panini c. 4th century BC. Wy does everybody think it is the oldest indoeuropean language, and even the mother tongue?

By: karina alvarado

karina alvarado — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:13:06 +0000

Hi can somebody help me to find information about Iberist Theory?
Thanks

By: dduck alias francesco

dduck alias francesco — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:29:20 +0000

I believe that the splitting of indoeuropean wasnt in russian territory early but IE before expandand and after been differentiated with several different sub-stratum.
spit into indo-iranian, balto-slav, celtic, germanic, italic, greek etc.

By: dduck

dduck — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:05:22 +0000

hello john
i believe that sanskrit is a step after, simple proto-indian (ind in this map)
PIE is mother tongue of all IE (within sanskrit, latin, greek, persian etc. )
but i believe that exist more ancent language, proto euroasiatic together uralic-altaic and others

By: John Rager

John Rager — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:22:04 +0000

I do not see a geograhical connection with Sanskrit speaking peoples although Sanskrit would have been in use at this time. If Sanskrit is proto-indo-european it should be included on this map – should it not?

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Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:36:52 +0000

[...] Europe’s Proto-Indo-European (ca. 2500-2000 BCE); evolved into Proto-Germanic, Proto-Celtic, Proto-Italic, Proto-Baltic and Proto-Slavic. [Archaeological map - expansion of Indo-European peoples] [...]