Ruby's Greek Thread

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But it suggests that finding even hundreds of word "matches" has a high likelihood of being a false positive.

Since there is a talk about Slovenian language, let me give you my opinion. First of all, do not trust Google and do not compare present day Slovenian with 15th century Slovenian. 
Because of high inflection and major spelling changes the Slovenian language is hard to translate with Google and hard to computer analysed.
Matching 100 words letter -to- letter, using any known or unknown VM transliteration or translation alphabet is not as easy as one would think, because many words are not found in dictionaries or recognized by Google.
Besides, the even the 100 exactly spelled words are not proof that the language is Slovenian, Turkish, Greek or any other. 
To look for matching words, the similarity of spelling is not always the best way. The changes have to be supported by rules that applied in the 15th century.
Finding approximate matches is a lot easier. If Slovenian language contains about 600 Sanskrit words, and Greek and Turkish contains them, the chances are that all three languages contain 100 similar words with similar meaning. After all, Greek was spoken in Anatolia, where Slavic language was a second language, and Greek was spoken in parts of Slovenia after the Roman Empire was divided. Greek and Latin was taught at schools up to the Second World War.
I believe the grammar is much better indicator of language, but this can also be problematic, because most Slavic languages have similar grammar, such as suffixes, prefixes, inflections, even vocabulary.  The distinction can only be made by the process of elimination of as many things that do not belong to a particular language that matches the VM. For example, the absence of G in the VM (noted also by dr. King), is not a proof that the language is Czeck.
The comparison cannot be made if different researchers use different transcription alphabet. Although EVA has a potential of being transcription alphabet, some improvements are needed.