[INDOLOGY] Indo-European

[Howard Resnick]

Thank you Antonia for your observations. Much appreciated.
Howard

> On Feb 6, 2025, at 3:03 PM, Antonia Ruppel <antonia.ruppel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>> wrote:
>> Dear Scholars,
>> 
>> Is this study as final and definitive as the article claims? Thanks! 
>> 
>> Howard
>> 
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>> Landmark studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard Gazette
>> news.harvard.edu
>>  <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>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>
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