Re: Semitic Influences

> I wonder about "Semitic residual influences". Especially in Anatolia.
> The resideual influence in Anatolia was Khattic (no Semitic traces
> there), Kaska (no evidence of what they spoke) and perhaps
> Lemno-Eutruscan. Not much evidence of Semitic trade into the region
> either until Phoenician times (after 1,000 BCE). Prior to that most
> trade was carried by Cretian or Mycenaean intermediaries. Even Greek
> myth says the Kadmians carried Phoenician writing (i.e. after 1,000
> BCE).

I'll leave that one to you linguistically oriented. I'm looking at the
Aegean as one area including Anatolia. Glen asserts these "nearly erased"
influences are there. He also suggests "semitish" in Greece pre IE. I
can't see the latter without at least some similar influences in coastal
Anatolia. I considered the Assyrian trade enclaves of the middle
bronze..but seems rather late. I think any Med sea trade system that
includes Levantine contact and colonies will accrue and distribute some
Semitic influence. There are also some Semitic "suggestions" associated with
Crete and even Malta, I believe(?). Don't know the periods.

Who are the Kaska? Region and time? (Kaskans?)

La Revedere;
Rex H. McTyeire
Bucharest, Romania
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