From: tgpedersen
Message: 47572
Date: 2007-02-23
>So now it's getting respectable to claim that the Trojans spoke
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
> <cdog_squirrel@> wrote:
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> > I really like the idea of the Etruscans being Indo-European in
> > origin, or at least closely related to the Indo-Europeans. If
> > indeed their language is an offshoot of an Anatolian one...
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> Sorry, there appears to be a misunderstaing here; that was
> originated by my unhappy choice of the term "Anatolian" in the
> opening sentence of my post archived at
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> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/47547
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> I had written:
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> "The theory about the Anatolian origin of the Etruscan people *and*
> language appears to have been strengthened by a new genetic study of
> cattle in the Tuscan region."
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> The term "Anatolian" is used in my note in a geographical, not in a
> linguistic sense; in fact, I wanted to refer to Beekes' hypothesis
> that the homeland of the Tyrsenoi (= Etruscans) lay in northwestern
> Anatolia, just south of the Sea of Marmara.
>
> Beekes' booklet, available as a PDF at
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> http://www.knaw.nl/publicaties/pdf/20021051.pdf ,
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> is really worth reading for anyone interested in the problem of the
> Etruscan origins (and also that of the origin of the Etruscan
> language). However, he doesn't maintain that the Tyrsenoi spoke an
> IE-related language. He thinks that they lived in close proximity to
> the (IE-speaking) Lydians, though. Please read the paper, that's
> so much interesting!
>