IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[petegray]

> After all, when presented with a new language, what's the first thing we do
> to determine whether it's IE or not?
> We look at the numerals from one to ten, the family relationship terms, and
> so forth.

Interestingly, these _failed_ to prove convincingly that Hittite was IE!
It was the rather obscure -r/-n heteroclite declension that was the final
clincher for some people.

Peter