IE to ProtoSteppe

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/26/99 5:30:34 PM Mountain Standard Time,
glengordon01 at hotmail.com writes:

>If we accept (as we should) that IE is genetically tied to languages
>like Uralic and Altaic >>

-- frankly, I think relationships at that time-depth are unrecoverable with
any degree of confidence.

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