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The chapter discusses the position of Greek within the Indo-European family. Special attention is paid to innovations shared by all Greek dialects, which allows us to reconstruct Proto-Greek, and to the internal subgrouping of Greek. As for external subgrouping, the similarities of Greek with Macedonian, Phrygian and Armenian are evaluated, and the (unfortunately meagre) evidence for the exact place of Greek within the Indo-European family is discussed.

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The chapter assesses the phylogenetic position of Armenian within the Indo-European language family. After examining the most important, independent developments constituting Armenian as a separate language branch, it discusses those phonological, morphological, and lexical innovations that are shared with, in particular, Greek, Phrygian and Albanian. It then argues that these innovations are sufficiently numerous and significant to posit that together with those languages, Armenian belongs to a higher-order subgroup, Balkan Indo-European.

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