Re: Greater Pelasgia

John:

>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).

How should we explain the Semitic loanwords in Kartvelian?

- gLeN

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