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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith Builders
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:01:24 -0600
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----- Original Message -----
From: "ellen Levy" <>

So who was there earlier, as reflected
> in the sub-stratum of IE languages,

I have heard this "sub-stratum" tossed out a few times to give an
explanation for the different directions various branches of the
Indo-European took.

It seems not necessary to have a sub-stratum warp a language, although it
certainly can. Just listen to the Asian-Indian dialect of English, for
example. Maybe someday, given the demographics, it will be the prevailing
English.

But Old-Norse was taken to unpopulated Iceland 1200 years or so ago. There
was no sub-stratum (unless you want to argue that the Celts who went along
perturbed Icelandic significantly? )

There is now divergence of Norwegian from Icelandic, although there is some
understandability between. Separation, isolation and drift of languages can
create different branches. Is this totally discounted as an ingredient into
the emergence of the branches of IE ?

Ken


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