Michael:
>I thought someone said it was an Afro-Asiatic, but not Semitic,
>substrate in Northern Europe that were dealing with here?
I'm open to the Berber idea because I don't see any straight
answers on the problem so far, but why can't it be Semitic?
If I understand a major reason why AA (as a whole) is suspected
to be at the heart of the Atlantiker influence is the adoption
of verb-initial sentence patterns, which aren't as common but
are typical in the AfroAsiatic languages overall.
= gLeN
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