04.27.09
Division of the PIE
A post on the division of PIE into three branches, as seen in their consonantal stop systems, from a discussion in a fascianting new book, Empires of the Silk Road.
At the point where the Aryan invasion theory, discussed here several times, begins to become so controversial as to induce a new form of the politically correct, the details, and they are complex, of the PIE reconstruction linguistics needs to enter with a dose of reality.