Re: IE Anatolian presence in Greece?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Smith"
<mytoyneighborhood@...> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I read somewhere (I can't remember where) about an early IE
> Anatolian presence in Greece and that they may have preceded
> Hellenic speakers in Greece. Is there any evidence of an Anatolian
> substratum in Greece or the Balkans? There's some scholars who
> believe Homer may have been a Luwian refugee. I wonder about a
> Luwian migration into Greece, the Balkans and Illyria. I find it
> interesting that there are the Dardanians (i.e. Trojans) mentioned
> in Western Anatolia, who may have been Luwian speakers, and also an
> Illyrian tribe called the Dardani in Europe. And the Dardenelles
> may have been named after them, which would seem to indicate a
> migration of them into Europe, where they must have
> become "Illyrianized". Thoughts?
>
> -Michael

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Leonard Palmer "The Greek Language (1980)" has several pages
favorably summarizing work, largely by Laroche, on toponymic,
morphologic and phonologic evidence for an Anatolian (specifically
Luwian) substrate to Greek. They seem to have brought some Asiatic
and Egyptian wanderworte, suggesting migration from Asia Minor rather
than some other putative I.E. homeland.
The Dardanelles take the name from the ancient city of Dardanos,
on the Asiatic bank thereof.
Dan Milton