Re: Lusitanian --Bell Beaker?

> > > Bell-Beaker culture spread so rapidly across western Europe that
> > > the starting point is hard to determine. If it started in the
> > > Low Countries, and if we accept Kitson's deduction that the
> > > Beaker Folk spoke "Alteuropäisch", the Indo-European language
> > > of Krahe's river-name system, then we might expect Kuhn's
> > > "Nordwestblöckisch" to be the language spoken by the descendents
> > > of those Bell-Beaker tribes who stayed at home, the NWB enclave
> > > being overrun first by Celtic, then by Germanic languages.
> >
> > AFAIK, there aren't any trace of Celts in the Netherlands. NWB
> > must have been overrun by Germanic.
> >
> In this case, I think the definition of "Low
> Countries" is broader than just the Netherlands.
> --also Belgium and N. France

I shied away from writing 'Low Countries' because the question of
whether the Belgae were NWB speakers hasn't been fixed. It should be.


Torsten