The UPenn IE Tree (a test)

[Rick Mc Callister]

	I'm curious whether there is a postulated threshold for language
division for early-IE that takes into account population and geographical
size [and possibly technology and resources --if this is plausible and
relevant]

>> And that means those speakers should be speaking a language between the
>> branch-offs that had an identity of its own.

>It might or might not have a _culturally recognized_ identity of its own.
>For example, if the speakers of Pre-Proto-Italo-Celtic were engaged in
>trade with the speakers of Proto-Greco-Armenian-Indo-Iranian-Balto-Slavic-
>Germanic, they was very likely a period where they considered their
>language to be the same while being aware that there are differences, as
>is the case for speakers of American and British English today.

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701