Talking Neolithic: The Case for Hatto-Minoan and its relation to Sumerian
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2019
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Schrijver, Peter
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Kroonen et alii, Guus
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Abstract
It is argued that the Minoan language of second-millennium BC Crete stands a good chance of being descended from the language that was imported into Crete by the earliest farmers that colonized the Island in the 7th millennium BC. Evidence is presented that links Minoan to the Hattic language of second- millennium BC northern Anatolia. An analysis of the Hattic verbal system supports the hypothesis that in turn Hattic is related to Sumerian. The existence of a Hatto-Sumero-Minoan language family is posited, which predates the expansions of Semitic and Indo-European in the Near East and which is implicated in the spread of migrant farmers into Europe. A word for ’pig’ is reconstructed for that language family.
Keywords
Neolithic, Hattian, Minoan, Sumerian
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Schrijver, P C H 2019, Talking Neolithic : The Case for Hatto-Minoan and its relation to Sumerian. in G Kroonen et alii (ed.), Talking Neolithic : Proceedings of the workshop on Indo-European originsheld at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, December 2-3, 2013. Journal of Indo-European studies monograph series, vol. 65, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Washington D.C., pp. 336-374.