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> Patrick:
> Well, let us approach this in an different way.
>
> What were the family affinities of the languages spoken in
Northern Germany - in the order of their earliest appearances -
according to your views?
>
These are the candidates:
1) Kuhn's non-IE ar-/ur- language, spoken from Somme/Oise petering
out somewher in the Baltic countries; possibly divided at
his 'borken' line (from the island of Borkum to a Borken in Central
Germany.
2) Kuhn's IE Nordwestblock language, spoken between Somme/Oise, the
Harz mountains and Eser /Aller, spoken after 1)
3) Vennemann's Atlantic, a Semitic language, spoken as 1) but also
in southern Germany
4) Vennemann's Vasconic, a language related to Basque, spoken as 2)?
5) Schrijver's language of geminates, from Finland to France.
6) Schrijver's language of bird names, ibd.?
I think 1), 3) and 6) (and the language of Möller's suggested
cognates) might be identical, an AfroAsiatic language and correspond
to the Bellbeaker culture. Other than that I have no idea (yet). The
language(s) of the first settlers in Scandinavia has been lost
completely.
No sequence suggested for 3) and 4), or 5) and 6).
Torsten