reality of PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>petegray at btinternet.com writes:

>Creoles - how can you describe a Creole as descended from a single ancestor?
>Doesn't his mean prioritising one of its "parents" over the other?

-- in point of fact, the Creoles I'm familiar with all do owe more to one.
Krio, for example, or Gullah, or Haitian creole.

Creoles also tend to have highly distinctive grammatical features which are
common to all creoles as such.