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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "studey22" <lookwhoscross-
eyednow@...> wrote:
> Considering the percentage of non-Indo-European in Germanic,
what
> is the consensus of the theory of either a non-Indo-European or non-
> Celtic and non-Germanic language squeezed between the latter two
> between the Aller Somme rivers and based on place names?
>
For that sentence to work, one would have to assume that the 28% non-
IndoEuropean words in Germanic were taken from the hypothetical
Nordwestblock language. There are several other possibilities.
Obviously it must have been a language by the sea, since 'sea'
and 'ship' are part of it. Udolph doesn't believe in a Nordwestblock
language, but thinks that the areas were originally Germanic. That
assumption means trouble for the idea that the Jastorf (ca 600 BCE -
1 BCE) culture was Germanic speaking, since Jastorf doesn't cover the
supposed Nordwestblock area.
Torsten