Re: some Proto-Quendic grammar (was Re: creating words (...))

Quoting Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>:

> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Jörg Rhiemeier
> <joerg_rhiemeier@W...> wrote:
> > Hallo!
> >
> > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:11:37 -0800,
> > Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@Y...> wrote:
> > > > And to make things even more complex, I fancy
> > > > that Proto-Elvish
> > > > is remotely related to Indo-European, and
> > > > explore the common
> > > > ancestor of both, which involves some rather
> > > > speculative internal reconstruction work on
> > > > Proto-Indo-European!
> > >
> > > Interesting! I didn't know that. Talarian is in a
> > > similar boat, being placed somewhere between IE
> > > and IH.
> >
> > I assume that by "IH", you mean "Indo-Hittite".
> > Hence, Talarian would occupy a position similar to that of
> Tocharian.
> > Quendic (to use the provisional name of the family) is even farther
> > from the main IE stock than Anatolian, though closer than Uralic
> > (if the latter is related to IE at all).
>
> And I presume more closely related to IE than to Etruscan and its
> relatives ('Tyrrhenian'), if you believe in the Indo-Tyrrhenian
> grouping.  Have you given it any credence?
Etruscan's relatives? Are there any languages known be related to Etruscan?

                                                         Andreas

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