Re: Is Basque IE?

2013/9/19, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@...>:
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> *Bhr.: If this is a sort of opinion poll, I find Gianfranco's
> Indo-European treatment of Michelena's and Trask's Pre-Basque fully
> convincing. Somebody already knows that I envisage a direct
> transformation of a substrateless Proto-Indo-European into any
> Indo-European linguistic class, each one within its Bronze Age area. I
> have therefore no difficulty in getting Basque into such a frame;
> conveniently verified Old Celtic place-names in Late Antique and
> Mediaeval Vasco-Aquitanian area should testify to a continuity of
> Celtic rather than Basque from Proto-Indo-European, otherwise I'm
> completely satisfied not only with an emergence of Basque from
> Proto-Indo-European somewhere

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near the Atlantic Ocean, but also in suitable territories for a
Neolithic settling in Sardinia)

The same holds true, in my really humble

> opinion, for Čašule's Burū́šaskī
>