"Our knowledge of these migrations [that broke PIE unity] is very limited. On a linguistic basis, little can be said about them."
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Beekes 1990:70., quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins.
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Robert S. P. Beekes
Robert Stephen Paul Beekes ( 2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was emeritus professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and an author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European language.
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