From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 1523
Date: 2000-02-16
>Thank you Glen for answering the second part of my question. What about
> gErRy wrOtE:
> >John, In attempting a gLeNic construction for the Nostratic language
> >family, you set up a very interesting schema. But I have (2) >questions:
> >why are you seperating Sumerian from Elamite + Dravidian >and why are you
> >giving PIE equal status with the extinct Etruscan >language found only in
> >an area around Rome?
>
> Not sure about John, but in my view, PIE and Etruscan are very closely
> related. Etruscan appears to be different enough from PIE to be seperate but
> still sharing close ties with the most archaic IE branch, Anatolian. Due to
> the striking similarities, many scholars have once been confused (and
> perhaps still are) in thinking that Etruscan was in fact an IE language.
> This is true only if you extend the IE language back a thousand years or
> more (4500+ BCE).
>
> My view is that EtruscoLemnian (a branch from which Etruscan and a very
> close sister language, Lemnian, sprang from) was one of a series of
> linguistic and physical migrations from the Pontic-Caspian towards the
> Balkans, starting from 4500 BCE (Kurgan I). Lemnian is known to have close
> ties to Etruscan and so, Gerry, you are incorrect in thinking that this was
> only a Rome affair.
>
> The next waves to spring forth after the EtruscoLemnian wave were the
> Anatolian waves. I say "waves" (with an -s) because I theorize that
> Lyco-Lydian might have been the first of these waves eventually followed by
> the last wave Hittite-Luwian. In such a case, the term "Anatolian" is
> somewhat of a loosely defined word, only meaning "the oldest of the old"
> under IE studies.
>
> - gLeN
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