>Marcus in reply to Dennis's post asked
>
> > And which would be the family of people (or language)
> > closest to the Sea People and Etruscans ?
> > Perhaps the Phriges ?
>
>No, not Phrygian, although it may have had a Etruscan-TRSN substrate
>(and some borrowed vocabulary). Glen has suggested that they are an
>early split off from Indo-European (i.e. an earlier stage of
>Indo-Etruscan), which could make some sense archaeologically if it
>occurred in the mesolithic period.
Yes, John. Thanks for the explanation. But you know, now my timelines are
changing in my head and I'm starting to think that perhaps it was only the
IE speakers who arrived on the North Shores of the Black Sea around 5500 BCE
and perhaps the Tyrrhenian group were more northern and would have moved
further west and into the Balkans around 6000 BCE or so. I wonder however
how this tie in with archaeology.
What this idea would mean in part is that IE never had direct interaction
with Uralic since there would have been a northern layer of non-IE
IndoTyrrhenian dialects seperating any contact. Guess we're all flying kites
this week. :)
- gLeN
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