3. The 'pig' word may have been a Wanderwort. If Basque was a Neolithic language, one would expect kinship to Iberian (unless one of them arrived later still), but there is little evidence for that - as I wrote yesterday, Basque has not turned as helpful in understanding Iberian as the "classical" IE languages were in understanding Hittite. Uralic Languages. At any rate, if Basque was brought in by Neolithic settlers from the east, Vennemann's hypothesis would tank (though the language brought in by the Cardial Neolithic may have been related to that brought in by LBK, of course, but that's still not Vennemann's Vasconic).It occurred to me: when a well-developed neolithic culture moves into an area, how common is it for hunter-gatherer languages to survive? The Basque word for 'city', Meanwhile, I have read up a bit on the genetics of the Neolithic people of the Iberian Peninsula, and the Basques in particular.

Other languages like Tungusic and Austro-Asiatic probably had time to adopt some agricultural practices before the Big Boys moved in, but only because they lived in remote areas that were marginal for Han-style farming.One relatively recent migration of this sort happened when the Bantu groups moved into southern Africa, displacing the Khoi-San hunter-gatherer populations. There's a difference between historical linguistics and just guessing to suit our own fancy.
/naltak/=nalttak, etc. Re: Paleo-European languages Post by WeepingElf » Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:23 pm Meanwhile, the language spoken in Sardinia at the time of Roman conquest may have been a sister language … Re: Paleo-European languages Post by Nerulent » Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:04 pm Indeed, the jump from 'a few striking parallels' to 'they must be related' is a … You can probably enlighten me, Salmoneus, given your knowledge in European human genetics. But on the other hand, the Iberian corpus is much smaller than the Hittite one, and a Neolithic language relationship would be more than 1000 years deeper than that between Hittite and "classical" IE, which would both make things more difficult. In The Beginning. Paleo-European language... by Javier HERRERA RANDO. He does, however, say that it's just a hypothesis that will need to be tested through comparative reconstruction, and the prospect of joining two isolates is always an exciting one.I took a closer look at those Hattic and Sumerian verbal paradigms and wrote down my thoughts. The Paleo-Balkan languages is a grouping of various extinct Indo-European languages that were spoken in the Balkans and surrounding areas in ancient times.. Paleo-Balkan studies are obscured by the scarce attestation of these languages outside of Ancient Greek and, to a lesser extent, Messapic and Phrygian.Although linguists consider each of them to be member of the Indo-European … 3.

25 Mar. COST website. Languages attested in inscriptions include the following:Further, there have been replacements of Indo-European languages by others, most prominently of most of the Also, however, languages replaced or engulfed by Indo-European in ancient times must be distinguished from languages replaced or engulfed by Indo-European languages in more recent times.

We might be able to conclude whether a language represents a Neolithic intrusion or a Bronze Age intrusion, etc.

Why not a change, for a change - why not "but what does this mean for the theories of Edo Nylund? Discussion of hypothetical languages spoken in the European Neolithic is divided into two topics: Early Indo-European languages are usually assumed to have reached Europe in the Theories of "Pre-Indo-European" languages in Europe are built on scant evidence. European languages are a great example of this. I don't know what is the prevalent opinion for northern Spain and southwestern France.

The Basques seem to be descendants of these Neolithic farmers.Meanwhile, the language spoken in Sardinia at the time of Roman conquest Thus the consonant inventory of old Basque can be simplified to only 9 consonants.The Western Romance and Insular Celtic lenitions manifested only late, sure, but it may be the case that a kind of Donald Ringe, criticizing scenarios that envision only a small number of Neolithic language families spread over huge areas of Europe, has argued on general principles of language geographyapplying to "tribal" pre-state societies, and the scant remains of non-Indo-European languages at…