Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

I think the basis for this assumption is the simularities between
germanic verbal conjugation and the uralic one.


Both groups have only two tenses and generally two diateses
active/medio-passive.

The aspect-system that is very important in other IE languages is
poorly developed in both groups (perfective/imperfective).



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "armanddoriot" <armanddoriot@...>
wrote:

> I've read that Germanic peoples might be a non IE people which

learned

> IE by an invading IE people, and that this original non IE's might
> have been Uralic or even Semitic, hence the oddity of Germanic as

far

> as IE languages go.
> Has anyone heard of this? And what the bases might be for this
> statem