Dating the final IE unity

[Christopher Gwinn]

>> the undecipherable Thracian, Albanian and Celtiberian should send
>> your date of dispersal hurtling back to that magic 7000BC you've
>> mentioned so frequently.

> -- another bizzare statement.  Would you care to elucidate why the existance
> of Celtiberian should affect our datings?  Particularly as we know virtually
> nothing about it, or Thracian.

I think you are overstating a bit on Celtiberian - we may not know as much
about it as Gaulish, but we are far from knowing "virtually nothing about
it" (and it is certainly not undecipherable!) In any case, we know
Celtiberian was already being spoken in Spain in the 6th century BC, and
that it shares many similarities with the Goidelic branch
(PIE -Kw-=Qu/Ku/Cu, for example). Its vocabulary preserves some archaisms
not found in Goidelic or Brythonic (Silbur "silver" next to regular Common
Celtic word Arganto-) and its sentance structure was SOV