Re: Etruscans

From: ualarauans
Message: 51288
Date: 2008-01-15

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Kishore patnaik" <kishormohan@...>
wrote:
>
>
> Most of the possibilities that form key to
> the mystery of Etruscan alphabet threaten to collapse the pyramids
of
> beliefs on which these academics are built up in the last 200
years or
> so.

There's nothing especially mysterious about the Etruscan alphabet.
It's obviously derived from the Greek.

> And what if
> these elements are absent in the Greek and other proto European
models
> that have been so painstakingly built?? it will only mean that
> Indians have been contributing to the linguistics of the ancient
world
> , rather than being recipients!!!!!

Who's telling they were just recipients?