Re: [tied] Re: The PCT of Indo-European origins

From: alex
Message: 37081
Date: 2005-04-11

Francesco Brighenti wrote:
> Until recently he was president of _Atlas Linguarum Europae_ (ALE)
> at UNESCO. Some of his main linguistic contributions which were
> instrumental in creating the Paleolithic Continuity Theory (PCT)
> were those about the tendency toward conservation of languages as
> opposed to the theories of "biological laws" of linguistic change
> and the method of lexical self-dating. Alinei and his work group
> have basically argued that the distribution of the IE family of
> languages is a reflex of the initial Paleolithic settlement of Homo
> sapiens in Eurasia from Africa.

> Kindest regards,
> Francesco Brighenti


Dear Francesco, do I am wrong or -soo far I remember- Mr Alinei is one
who sustains the Hungarian language is deriving from Etruscian too.
Please read here about:

http://www.studiolum.com/etruszk/


Of course one has his doubts about someone's ideas when one reads such
articles.

Alex




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