Re: On the origin of the Etruscans

From: ehlsmith
Message: 48175
Date: 2007-04-02

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> This doesn't look good for Maeonian being of the Etruscan family, as
> Beekes wants it to be. ..............

Beekes does not claim Maeonian belonged to the Etruscan family, he
claims that Etruscan was a remnant language located in the same area of
Anatolia as was Maeonian(later Lydian)before being displaced by
Phrygian invasions.

Regards,
Ned Smith