From: mkelkar2003
Message: 44966
Date: 2006-06-13
>http://www.panshin.com/trogholm/wonder/indoeuropean/indoeuropean4.html
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Greeks and Pre-Greeks
> > Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition
> > Margalit Finkelberg
> > Tel-Aviv University
> > CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
> > © Margalit Finkelberg 2005
> > SBN-13 978-0-521-85216-6 hardback
> > ISBN-10 0-521-85216-1 hardback
> >
> >
> >
> http://assets.cambridge.org/052185/2161/excerpt/0521852161_excerpt.pdf
> >
> > "The even spread of the suffixes -ss- and -nth- over western Asia,
> > Greece and Crete strongly suggests that the so-called pre-Hellenic
> > populations of Greece were of Anatolian stock. If true, this would
> > lead us not only to Anatolia but also farther east, for the simple
> > reason that the Anatolians of Asia, Indo-Europeans though they were,
> > cannot be taken separately from the great civilisations of the Near
> > East. As the archaeological discoveries of recent years show, the
> > Bronze Age Aegean was in close contact with these civilisations. The
> > degree to which this new assessment of the linguistic and
> > archaeological evidence at our disposal may affect the terms of the
> > current discussion of the cultural identity of Aegean civilisation
> > will be examined in Chapter 3."
>
> So before the people of Greece spoke the Indo-European language Greek
> they spoke an Indo-European language of another IE branch.
> Interesting, but how is that relevant to what it is you want to say,
> which I haven't yet found out what is, except that those IE-linguists
> think they're smart and they're not?
>
> BTW those Anatolian place name suffixes -nth- and -ss- correspond to
> suffixes of names of Danish islands -nd and -s. Now you'll all have
> to excuse me while I go make some sacrifices.
>
>
> Torsten
>