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A YouTube comment that summarizes the key hypothesis: >The speculations (starting 1:00:20) that the cultures spreading agriculture through Europe some 8000 yea
by ETH_start 2y ago
A YouTube comment that summarizes the key hypothesis:
>The speculations (starting 1:00:20) that the cultures spreading agriculture through Europe some 8000 years ago was speaking a relative to Pre-Proto-Indo-European has the linguistically terrifying implication that all the substrate languages present in Europe before the migration of the Indo-Europeans in the 4th millennium BCE might have had a Pre-Proto-Indo-European root as well. The existence of remnants from those substrate languages in modern European languages that was often proposed early on has been mostly discredited these days as more and more of the suggested words were traced to a PIE root. Now if the substrate languages themselves have PPIE roots, the mixing with substrate languages could become a big mess. Who knows what words that seem harder to reconstruct than others go back to such a meddle with substrates. It seems utterly impossible to reconstruct anything along those lines.