Re: [tied] GLEN AND ANATOLIA IN 7500BC

MICHEAL J. SMITH WROTE:
<<Steve, you've made a very good point, I completely agree with you. I don't
think anyone can refute what you are saying, because, like you said, no one
knows the linguistic situation at that early date.
I've seen many make the poor assumption that non-Indo-European presence in a
general geographical area ... automatically rules out early Indo-European
speech in that general area. Wherever Indo-European originated (though
different phases of its evolution surely took place in different areas) it
certainly must have been one of several or many language families in the
area.>>

Micheal,
I suspect (only suspect, mind you) that the actual scenario could have been
something suggested by Miguel Carrasquer Vidal, who is also a member of this
list. Some form of Pre-PIE (an ancestor of the reconstructed PIE) moved from
Anatolia into the Balkans and the Danube and Ukraine, and then a reverse
migration brought the Anatolian IE languages back into Anatolia.

Anatolia seems to be in a geographical position where all kinds of languages
are always coming and going. In history -- some 4000 years -- there have
been dozens -- and many have disappeared . There's no reason to think that
prehistory any different.

This makes statements like <<Hattic is more autochthonous than IE,...>>
quite irrelevant of course. But the fact is that there is no way of knowing
-- short of the highly improbable discovery of written records -- whether IE
languages originated in Anatolia. My point was there is nothing to disprove
it. But there is nothing to prove it either.

Steve Long