From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61049
Date: 2008-10-23
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>> ok,
>> but Iberian seems to be the "ultimate" substrate,
>> I mean the very first one to be on the spot.
>> I don't think any of Uralic or
>> "macro-Kartvelian" qualifies to the
>> "ultimate" substrate of Tokharian.
>> This leads to a very very complicated scenario of language
>> overlapping.
>>
>> Arnaud
>
> Exactly and that's the way I perceive languages, as overlapping and as
> sloppy as any other human endeavor. If languages were as orderly as many
> people wished, poor Piotr would probably be out of work. But thanks to the
> complexities of languages, he is gainfully employed.
****Re: Iberian, it too has substrates, we just don't know what they
are.****
Rick
Like what words ?
How can we state that a word is a substrate in Iberian when we hardly
understand that Iberian language ?
And know even less about that unplausible substrate.
This sounds utterly absurd...
Arnaud