Post #1952

An interesting new linguistic paper ("Indo-Slavic Lexical Isoglosses and the Prehistoric Dispersal of Indo-Iranian" by Axel I. Palmér) proposes the joining of the Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Baltic-Slavic into a branch called Indo-Slavic. In this hypothesis, Fatyanovo may be Indo-Slavic, and Abashevo (the ancestor of Sintashta and Srubnaya) in turn would be Proto-Indo-Iranian. I plan on making a future post discussing this hypothesis. The pdf is open access and free to download (only the printed version has a cost): https://brill.com/display/title/72253?srsltid=AfmBOopo6saxCywro72ra102yA9CkQu_fMikU4ztWzvA-11oTgnaL21f