Re: Models and PIE reconstruction [was: Ligurian]

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

>
> If I'm not mistaken, you think languages with no attested texts simply
> don't exist, so the terms "substrate" and "substrate loanword" are
> meaningless to you. Am I right?
>

I also forgot to say that in *stratified* societies typical of the Bronze and Iron Age, the language of the ruling aristocracy was usually different from the demotic one spoken by the indigenous population. This means that in many areas were the aristocracy spoke, say, Celtic or Iberian, the indigenous population spoke pre-Celtic and pre-Iberian languages.

> > The correct term is "Sorotaptic", as the first /p/ was intrusive.
>
> Yes, I know; I used to be a supporter of Sorothaptic (I think in
> English it's with th according o Greek etymology)
>

Not really, because the Greek term is táphos 'tomb'.