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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
>
> The thing is not all the IE roots found in Pokorny's or elsewhere come
> from the language. In particular, those with non-ablauting /a/ are
most
> likely from substrate languages which I collectively call "paleo-IE",
as
> opposite to the language(s) of the Steppe People, which I call
Kurganic
> and is roughly similar to traditional "PIE".
>
In Mallory-Gimbutas' theory, Kurgans (nomadic shepherds from the Pontic
Steppes) took over farmers of the Lower Danube area, leading to an
acculturation process ("Kurganization") by which they imposed their own
language (Kurganic) over the autochthonous population. However, in my
view the replacement of the existing languages was way of being
complete, so a kind of creolization happened by which large portions of
them survived in the historical IE languages. This is why I regard
Kurganic as a *superstrate* to native IE, which essentially was a
Neolithic language spoken in the North Balkans-Lower Danube area.
Thus I think the identification of Kurganic as the real "PIE" by most
IE-ists is wrong, and the refined version of an "Early PIE" from which
Anatolian and "Late PIE" later split is only a palliative.