(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.
By the way what do you think about the Germanic Urheimat Malären, as Urheimat in the sense that this area from pre to proto Germanic (= Urheimat whole range Germanic) the core and cradle? Do we see a perfect straightforward situation here?