Re: R: [tied] Etruscans

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From: Sciarretta Antonio

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Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:47 PM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] R: [tied] Etruscans

>I don't see any place where Etruscans could come from
>in the "East".
>This would imply Etruscan is clearly connected with some other language
>in the east : so which one ?

NE Caucasian, for instance.

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ARnaud

I consider NE Caucasian to be part of PIE

so it's definitely not the place to look for Etruscans.

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See the posts from Ed Robertson on this list. In any case, Etruscan is clearly not connected with other languages in Italy.
Best regards
Antonio Sciarretta
http://xoomer. alice.it/ asciatopo/ etruria.html
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Arnaud

Etruscan is obviously not closely related to PIE

And I will add that the extreme difficulty of connecting Etruscan to anything else

is easily explained when you just assume this language has occupied northern Italy for 37 000 years in half - isolation.

I haven't had time to read your reference carefully

but a quick reading seems to look like the typical "act of faith"

which can be summed up as "Nothing is not clear at all but I want it so badly to be true that it must be true".

But maybe I am prematurely harsh.

Arnaud

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