From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61051
Date: 2008-10-23
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>>
>> 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
>
> Unless Iberian was created ex-nihilo in Iberia and was the first language
> there. it was the result of splits and encounters with other languages.
> Even Icelandic has substrates: Gaelic, pre-Scandinavia substrate language
> and pre-Germanic substrate language. And Gaelic has substrate as well --so
> Icelandic has substrate of substrate.
>
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Iberian was spoken in a continental dead-end
and we know for sure that modern mankind came there.
So It may have no substrate at all,
but neighbors, most probably.
I perceive your reasoning as theoretical,
without the support of real data !?
Gaelic cannot be the substrate of Icelandic,
but maybe an adstrate
and pre-scandinavian language(s) are substrates to North Germanic,
the ancestor of Icelandic among others.
As far as I know there was nobody on that volcanic rock when some bold
people first got there on drakkars.
You seem to have a very lax use of the word "substrate".
Arnaud