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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:
> Etruscan was an IE language as was proved by Bekees in "The Origin
> of Etruscans", see file section on Cybalist).
Sorry to contradict you, but, since it was me who first posted here
the link to Beekes' booklet "The Origin of the Etruscans", I want to
point out that that author does *not* favour the thesis that
Etruscan was an IE language. See. f.i., at p. 9 of the PDF at
http://www.knaw.nl/publicaties/pdf/20021051.pdf
"When the Indo-European speaking peoples entered Asia Minor, they
found other languages there, of which little is known. We have a
very few texts in Hattic, which is badly known. A language that is
used in a certain area where another language arrives later, is
called a substratum language. Often the substratum language
disappears. This is what happened in western Asia Minor. It is
probable that one of these languages was preserved: Etruscan."
Kindest regards,
Francesco Brighenti