[INDOLOGY] Indo-European

[Antonia Ruppel]

My take as someone who has not read the original study: I am cautious about
this for several reasons.

-- A person's genes do not tell you what language they're speaking.
-- University alumni magazines love to talk up research from their
institutions and make its results sound much more 'decisive' than they are.
-- That they get wrong simple things like when Europeans noticed that
Sanskrit, Latin and Greek were related by well over a century does not
inspire confidence. (But hey, scientists don't need to read early 17th-c
sources in Latin, right:-)?)

That said, if further study of the Nature article corroborated these
findings, I'd be more than delighted. I'm definitely going to take a look.

--Antonia

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 15:22, Howard Resnick via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Scholars,
>
> Is this study as final and definitive as the article claims? Thanks!
>
> Howard
>
> [image: 020425_Yamnaya_016.jpeg]
>
> Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard Gazette
> <https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/landmark-studies-track-source-of-indo-european-languages-spoken-by-40-of-world/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020250206%20(1)&spMailingID=35820945&spUserID=MjM4ODIxNjk1NDQyS0&spJobID=2843202028&spReportId=Mjg0MzIwMjAyOAS2>
> news.harvard.edu
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