Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

Miguel:

>>If so, then how does that make sense for a prehistoric Semitic loan? How
>>old do you think Proto-Semitic is?
>
> I have no idea. I suspect somewhat older than PIE.

Well, I was thinking c.6000-5000 BCE, so I guess we're on the same
wavelength. However, you mentioned East Semitic and I'm not understanding
how that works. I would have thought that East Semitic wasn't so far east
back in Neolithic. Unless you're saying that it was more north at the
time, say, in Western Anatolia... :)


= gLeN