Re: [tied] Re: Anatolia in 7500BC

Gevork:

>I do not understand your phrase "When writing begins".

Simply put, there is no evidence of IE languages in Anatolia
in the earliest records available to us.

>We notice elements of letter-writing in Sumerian heritage about
>5000BC.

As far as I know, early pictographs date to 4000 BCE. What
"elements" are you refering to that date to 5000 BCE? What does
"Sumerian heritage" have to do with Indo-European.

>We trace elements in Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Who traces what elements in Egyptian hieroglyphs? How does
this relate to the topic of Indo-European linguistics?

>The alphabet is more or less a semitic finding. about 2000bc

I gather you meant to say that the concept of the alphabet is
Semitic in origin even though Egyptian might be thought of as
quasi-alphabetic in its own right. What does this have to do with
IE at all?


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