Those are good points (darn, actual expertise trumps the musing of an amateur yet again),* in particular the migration of a group potentially alien to what beca

Those are good points (darn, actual expertise trumps the musing of an amateur yet again),* in particular the migration of a group potentially alien to what became a linguistically and perhaps culturally dominant group by the time we had written records. I still remain uncomfortable with the stability of Etruscan over that long period, though the whole point of the article — that there was adequate stability in Greek over that same span — rather makes this feeling rather silly. * this is sort of the subtext of the article itself.