Renfrew's Celtic Scenario

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>sarima at friesen.net writes:

>Much as knowing English and a few phonetic rules often allows one to piece
>together the general meaning of basic German.  (Indeed, perhaps *better*
>than that).

-- good point.  There's actually less structural difference between Greek
(particularly Mycenaean) and Sanskrit than there is between modern English
and standard German.

Eg., the verbal morphology of Mycenaean and Sanskrit are much closer than
English and German.

In fact, you could make a good case that _Latin_ and Sanskrit are more
similar than contemporary English and German.