Arqueología y diferenciación del indoeuropeo

Abstract

Some ideas on the relations among the Indo-European languages proposed in previous works by the author and certain colleagues seem to agree with the data recently discovered by archeologists. A septentrional invader horde probably entered Europe via the north of the Carpathian Mountains: the Balts and the Slavs were its rear. The gap formed behind them was occupied by people speaking Uralo-Altaic languages, because their movement to the West was paralleled by a movement of the Tocharians to the East. To the south of the first invader horde another moved by the Black Sea and afterwards via south of the Carpatian Mountains: its van was formed by the ancestors of the Indo-Iranians, Thracians and Greeks whose languages were interrelated and developed some isoglosses in common with the rear part of the septentrional horde, that is, the Balts and the Slavs. Later, as the Greeks moved south, contact was established between the Thracians and the Indo-Iranians, on one hand, and the Balts and the Slavs, on the other. A new series of isoglosses developed. All these movements took place at a time when Indo-European had developed multiple stem-flexion. Early Indo-European has been preserved by the Anatolian languages, which reached Asia Minor via the Caucasian Mountains and were isolated from other Indo-European developments at a very early date.