Re: Etruscan related to proto-indo-european? Is Linear A Luwian?

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63854
Date: 2009-04-20



--- On Mon, 4/20/09, bilderbr <bilderbr@...> wrote:

From: bilderbr <bilderbr@...>
Subject: [tied] Re: Etruscan related to proto-indo-european? Is Linear A Luwian?
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 11:11 AM

I think that Albanian Language is one of those rare languages that can translate Etruscan, and is possible that Albanian Language it self to be an Proto-Indo European language...

link: http://www.thelostt ruth.altervista. org/SitoEnglish/ pelasgian_ etruscan_ english.html

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Francisco Antonio Doria <doriagen@.. .> wrote:
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> Just finished reading a book by Margalit Finkelberg, where she makes two extraordinary claims, to me at least:
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> - Etruscan is related to proto-indo-european .
> - Linear A is Luwian.
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> Any new results on that?
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It is possible but it sounds very doubtful on the face of it that she could cook up something definitive without new dynamic discoveries. See Younger's page on Linear A --linked to the Wikipedia article on Linear A.

Younger found a couple of words that could be linked to either IE or Semitic: Asasara (a Goddess name) and kuro "total". But other than that, I don't think there is mucho else.

What specific data does she give linking Luwian and L-A?

Regarding Etruscan and IE --it's possible but it's not the mainstream view. The Etruscan-Albanian idea was laughed off the planet when Mayani's book came out.