Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mytoyneighborhood" <mytoyneighborhood@...> wrote:

>
> Thanks Torsten. I believe like Germanic Hellenic also has
> somewhere around 30%? I wonder if that could imply that there were
> fewer IE speakers of pre-Hellenic and pre-Germanic that migrated to
> their respective areas and a higher proportion of non-IE speakers
> than among other IE groups.

People used to be concentrated on the coast (even today 80& of world population is said to live within 100 km of the nearest coastline, or something), so an invading ethnic group would have less numerical impact there than inland.

> I believe the non-IE Hellenic element is believed to be either
> Pelasgian (possibly an Eteo-Cretan language?) or Anatolian, and
> I've only seen Afro-Asiatic, Uralic or Basque proposed as
> substrates for Germanic.

Add to that

1) Krahe's IE Old European (plenty literature)

2) Kuhn's ar-/ur- language, or non-IE NWB (see file section)

3) Kuhn's IE Nordwestblock language (see archive, plenty)

4) Peter Schrijver's language of geminates (= 2, in my opinion)

5) Peter Schrijver's language of bird names (also = 2?)

6) Venetic (= 3?; archives)


Torsten