Re: [tied] Affects of immigrant communities in language change

>First to Marc... Please do not confuse "IndoTyrrhenian", the
>ancestor of IndoEuropean and Tyrrhenian languages combined, and
>"Tyrrhenian", which is simply the language group of Etruscan,
>Lemnian and Rhaetic. IndoTyrrhenian would be found c. 7000 BCE
>in a region to the north of the Black Sea nearer the IE homeland.
>Tyrrhenian would be centred in Eastern Europe by 5500-5000 BCE
>with EtruscoLemnian to the south of this region (Balkans), and
>Rhaetic to the north.

Sorry. Lapsus. I'll reword: Don't you think Italo-Celtic & Germanic could
have had different substrates? If Thyrrenian languages were the Celtic
substrate, Germanic must have had another substrate, no? I read somewhere
that megalithic sea-faring peoples lived in S-Scandinavia & gave the
Germanics words like "sea, drink, drive" etc. (strong verbs: early?). What
language could they have spoken if it was no FinnoUgric? Can't these words
(drink, drive...) give some indication?

Marc Verhaegen