Re: Basque/Georgian

Glen 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 you astound me. Not only do you have Etrusco-Lemnian translated
and slotted in, (a feat that most other linguists have not yet
managed), but you also have it's philogeny arranged.

What about an alternative arrangement.

Etruscan and Anatolian languages have in common an Anatolian pre-IE
substrate (Sabine's -ss-, -nd-, -st- language group). Thus their
similarity is due to borrowing from a common source - a non IE
substrate?

Just flying kites

John