Re: My personal project
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 11:24 |
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 05:59:20 -0500, Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
wrote:
>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.
>
>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
There are also some interesting left-overs from the language of the Picts.
Actually, there are several theories about them. Some say the Picts spoke a
Celtic language, but others claim they were remnants of an older, pre-IE
culture on British/Scottish soil. What's left of their language is nothing
but a few place-names and other small fragments, but nevertheless it might
be interesting to take a look at them.
Jan