Re: Q Atkinson

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 69992
Date: 2012-08-27

How far west did Hattic extend? I gatherOn maps Hittite goes as far west as the Aegean, at one time or another, all of Anatolia except for the Straits. Luwic languages were spoken in Ionia and around the corner along the Med.
Someone more knowledgeable than me can speak to substrate in Luwian et al. but my understanding is that Luwian is also an interloper

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 9:21 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Q Atkinson

 
--- In mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> I find his siting of IE in Anatolia just based on the presence of Anatolian a bit strange because it's obvious that Anatolian was an interloper. Now if he were to say Moesia (opposite Thrace), maybe, but it would be a stretch and probably the end of a long dialect chain starting somewhere around the mouth of the Don.

The 95% confidence limit extends as far as the Dniester, so Moesia is included.

Is it obvious that Anatolian is an interloper? Hattusas was originally Hattic, but that does not make Anatolian intrusive in all of Anatolia.

Richard.