From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60887
Date: 2008-10-14
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> > Such a culture : late and widespread can hardly coincide with one
> > particular language.
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> If the people who spoke it were traders it would. Cf. English
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> Traders usually leave about no traces at all.
> CF. Phoenicians.
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Cf. English
And how about all Venneman's and Møller's IE-Semitic matches?
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I cannot see the relevance of English as regards Traders and Veneti.
Please explain.
Moeller's matches could be cognates, hence irrelevant.
Venneman's work is highly suspect of being nothing but fanciful.
Arnaud
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> And be they traders or not, those Veneti, wherever they came from,
> were not spreading in a human vacuum.
> At that time (- 2000 BC) about all Europe is covered by
> Indo-European Agricultural people.
Yes, and?
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The place was already occupied by other people, who had their own cultures,
which we can observe.
I expect the traces of traders to be archeological nil.
Arnaud
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