Re: [tied] Paleo-European?

13-08-03 17:19, William H. wrote:

> piotr, everything concerning ancient languages is a guessing game
> because there are no definate answers.

It's trivially true that all scientific hypotheses are "guesses". The
point is that there are educated guesses supported by data and naive
guesses based on nothing but the guesser's fancy.

> sure Vinca may have been an
> archaeological complex but it can also be atributed to the language
> of that "old european" script since we do not know the formal name,
> you might as well call it something.

It remains to be proved that the symbols amount to a writing system, and
that there's a language behind it. Surely every archaeological culture
was produced by humans speaking a language or a number of languages, but
unless we can learn _anything_ about those languages it's no earthly use
inventing names for them.

Piotr