10-11-2023, 08:14 AM
(10-11-2023, 08:11 AM)Jaska Wrote: Rodoorn:
Quote:“Sec for the linguistics Unetice was literally in the middle between Balto-Slavic, Celtic and Italic. So I guess we have to search in the IE range and definitely not: ‘One of those nameless ancient Paleo-European languages pre-dating the Indo-Europeanization’ ”
We have no reason to assume that the linguistic Indo-Europeanization was an abrupt and total process. First, we usually have ancient DNA only from the elite, which makes big and visible graves; we do not see the whole genetic variation. Second, after the immigrants arrive, it takes generations before language shift can happen. Sometimes bilingualism is a stable state and does not lead to new monolingualism (language shift).
Germanic is considered a branch which has more substrate loanwords than other European IE-branches. Therefore, it was for a long time spoken in a region where there was also Paleo-European languages present. And finally, we must acknowledge that there were also Indo-European languages which have not survived.
It is not so straightforward a situation that we could just decide that Unetice language must have been Pre-Proto-Germanic. There have been other proposals for that culture during the research history.
Perfect, basically I see no light between what you and I state about this point.