Re: My personal project

Raymond Brown wrote:
>Basque survives right over in the west.  It's most unlikely that only one
>pre-IE language group inhabited Europe.  Indeed, Etruscan surely is
>evidence that this is not so.  I know there are theories linking Etruscans
>in obscure ways with IE, but they are IMO far from convincing.  Inevitably
>someone will have connected Etruscan with Basque (for the simple reason
>that practically every language on this planet has been linked by someone
>or other to Basque!), but this can be discounted.
AFAIK, the Uralic languages are thought to be long since present in Eastern
Europe when the IEans (predecessors of the EUans!) migrated into Central and
Western Europe. Perhaps they had westerly kin that were later absorbed by
the IEophones?

Aquitanian, related to Basque, would be another pre-IE European language.
I've heard claims that the pre-IE languages of (southern) Spain and Portugal
were Afroasiatic (related to Berber), but no idea how reliable this is.

                                         Andreas


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