Bandkeramik and non-Anatolian PIE

[Vartan Matiossian]

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> -- my own guess would be that Phrygian, Armenian and Hellenic were, in
> origin, part of the same dialect-cluster and simply share a lot of late
> isoglosses.  Thracian we simply don't know enough about to say.

Views on this subject are very contradictory, but the consensus reached
during the last years seems to point that there was a Greek-Armenian dialect
cluster (perhaps Indo-Iranian-Greek-Armenian), and that Phrygian had not
genetical relation with Armenian. A well-balanced study of this is V. Orel's
article ("The Position of Phrygian, Annual of Armenian Linguistics, vol. 14,
1993)

Regards,
Vartan Matiossian
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1453 Buenos Aires
Argentina
varny at cvtci.com.ar