Pre-Greek languages

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>Odegard at means.net writes:

>So. As a seat-of-the pants theory that cannot be proved, the Anatolians
>were, oh, 3100, 3200 BCE while the other group of IE-speakers, the group
>that was ancestral to all the other IE languages, were still hopelessly
>land-lubbers up where the steppe merged into forest. Anatolian can be seen
>as a happenstance offshoot that got lucky and left us written records 2500
>years later.

-- seems sensible, except that it's 1500 years later, not 2500.  1000 years
later if you count the Anatolian/IE names found in the records of the
Assyrian merchant colonies in Anatolia in the early second millenium.