Re: Etruscan related to proto-indo-european? Is Linear A Luwian?

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63860
Date: 2009-04-21



--- On Mon, 4/20/09, etherman23 <etherman23@...> wrote:

From: etherman23 <etherman23@...>
Subject: [tied] Re: Etruscan related to proto-indo-european? Is Linear A Luwian?
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 6:16 PM

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Francisco Antonio Doria <doriagen@.. .> wrote:
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> Just finished reading a book by Margalit Finkelberg, where she makes two extraordinary claims, to me at least:
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> - Etruscan is related to proto-indo-european .

I agree, though obviously much of the native lexicon of Etruscan was replaced with words from a substrate. However, this is not the mainstream view.

This discussion, however, is more appropriate for the Nostratic group.

Let's take it over there BUT I want to see concrete arguments