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From: MrCaws@...
Message: 6191
Date: 2001-02-22

By Balkan-Pelasgic languages I meant the non Indo-European languages
long ago spoken in the Balkan penninsula. ALthough I am not sure how
much specific evidence there is for when exactly such languages were
being spoken there, the Ancient Greeks thought that they were there
in Pre-Hellenic times, which pushes them pretty far back into the
bronze age.
That is why I believe that these languages probably left Anatolia
pretty early, or were part of an old superfamily that went waaay
back. Assuming that there was at least at some point a westward
direction from Anatolia, then I would have to say that it looks like
this push to the Aegean probably happened 3rd millenium BCE at the
latest. Does this seem reasonable?