>Lastly, when Germanic and especially Celtic venture further west, they
finally come across some truely exotic substrate languages beyond the blazé
Tyrrhenian fringe, like Vasconic, Iberian and Tartessian languages. These
quite different substrate
languages help to alter these IE languages in unique ways, thus explaining
EVERYthing! Glen
Glen, do you think some peculiarities of Germanic (initial stress, ü, ö...?)
could be explained by a Finnish-Estonian or so speaking people adopting an
IE language?
Marc