Fw: [tied] Re: swallow vs. nightingale

From: tgpedersen
Message: 51015
Date: 2007-12-28

> >
> > ARnaud
> > If I understand you properly,
> > you are supposing that PIE speakers arriving in Europe
> > got a certain number of roots and words
> > from a pre-existing language, substrate in Europe,
> > And you are further supposing that this substrate is LBK-roessen ?
> > Is this correct ?
>
> Spoken in LBK-Rössen, yes.
> ===========
> Arnaud
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:European_Late_Neolithic.gif
>
> From this map, and the dating around -4500
> LBK Rössen is linked to early Celtic populations.
>
> What is the reason you think it 's not indo-european ?

Nobody does, as far as I'm aware.
And the Celts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
are thought by most to have originated with the Hallstatt culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_culture


Torsten