From: Marc Verhaegen
Message: 2546
Date: 2000-05-26
contact/influence/borrowings in Basque, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, NE Caucasian, Kartvelian, Etruscan. Could it be that there is a Semitic substratum throughout western and southern Europe, right up to the Pontic region? Cheers Dennis>So, what is going on here? We now seem to have Semitic
Very interesting the resemblances between Celtic & Arab (& Spanish? tendency to VSO). I was thinking of a rudiment of an old sea-faring culture (or cultures) along the Atlantic Ocean & perhaps in the Mediterrenean ("megalithic").
If IYO the same Semitic substratum worked on related languages, it's difficult to explain why Celtic, Germanic & Greek are so different IMO, eg, why then are German & Greek not VSO?
Marc Verhaegen
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