>In which type of script are eteo-cypriot and eteo-cretan documented?
>What about Camunic (I have never heard about)?
Camunic was written basically in the same script as Etruscan and is
related to it. Rhaetic and Lemnian also are related to Camunic.
There is a link on my site under "Tyrrhenian" to a site that displays
known Camunic texts. It would appear that Camunic is "documented"
if we were to call these texts "documents".
>From this point of view Tracian and Dacian are attested but not documented,
>Pelasgian is also attested but not documented, but the pre-indoeupean
>languages of central Spain are nor attested neither documented. With this
>difference in mind what are de answers to the following questions:
>
>(1) Are Eteo-cypriot and Eteo-cretan documented?
>(2) Are Cymmerian attested?
Eteo-Cypriot was written in a "Linear" syllabary and there is a bilingual
text
dated to 600 BCE with Attic Greek accompanying it. It is presumed that both
languages are saying basically the same thing (aside from the last sentence
in
the Eteo-Cypriot side which doesn't appear to me to be mirrored on the
Greek side). My personal opinion is that Eteo-Cypriot firmly relates to the
Tyrrhenian languages because of the vocabulary and morphology that the
text displays. It would appear "documented".
Eteo-Cretan is found on Crete during the century 6/5 BCE. Since there
are Eteo-Cretan inscriptions hanging around... I'd dare say that Eteo-Cretan
is yet another "documented" language, even if we can't read what it says
yet. (I'm working on it. Give me a couple of months :P)
We even find talk of Tartessian inscriptions found in Eastern Spain. If
we interpret "inscription" to mean "document" then, yet again, we have
another documented "Old Europa" language that Alex denies exists because
it doesn't fit his falsifiable Greek-Latin view. Tartessian inscriptions are
viewable here for your enjoyment:
http://www.proel.org/alfabetos/tartesio.html
Camunic, Tartessian, Eteo-Cretan and Eteo-Cypriot make four documented
languages that are not in any shape or form Greek or Latin. Hooray!
= gLeN
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