What does /his/ think of the idea that the Germanic, Balto-Slavic, and Albanian language groups form their own clade within Indo-European?
>>3111767
English is bastardized French.
>>3111792
No.
>>3111767
Bullshit. Balto-Slavic and Germanic aren't even remotely related anyway beyond the level which Indo-European languages generally are.
>>3111767
Germanics and Balto-Slavs were closely connected, and that is recognised by experts, but I don't see why you decided to stuff Albanian in there.
>>3111832
Nope.
Germanic is Centum, Balto-Slavic-Indo-Iranian is Satem.
While there is a smaller amount of Satemic influence in Germanic as well it doesn't mean anything.
>>3111832
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_language
"Albanian was formerly compared by few Indo-European linguists with Germanic and Balto-Slavic, all of which share a number of isoglosses with Albanian.[15]"
>>3111792
WE WUZ NORMENZ N SHEIT
>>3111862
I think genetics could answer the question who the Albanians are and where they come from.
>>3111887
Except the Albanians got TURKED pretty hard in the late medieval/early modern period.