Indo-Germanic

[LeoFacq]

Dear Friends,
Reacting on Mr. Silk's and other members' comments on this topic, the
Indology Seminar at the University of Ghent (Belgium) some years back used
the name Tocharo-Celtic, to group languages between the Tochar (Eastern)
and Celtic (Ultimate Western) brackets.
lfacq at glo.be

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> From: jonathan.silk at wmich.edu
> To: Members of the list <indology at liverpool.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Indo-Germanic
> Date: zondag 23 februari 1997 6:35 PM
> 
> Perhaps I am not the only one to say this (I haven't checked through all
my
> backed-up email today), but I fear that to me anyway Indo-Germanic (in
> English or in German) indeed sounds nationalistic.  If one wanted a
> technically defensible name, would we not have to resort to something
like
> Tocharo-Hittite?
> 
> Silk