non-Anatolian PIE

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>rdrews at richmond.edu writes:

>Intrusive in the Halys arc, yes, but "Hittite" seems to have come to Hatti
>from the south, where Luwian and other Anatolian languages seem to have been
>spoken as far back as there were permanent settlements.

-- well, the Hittites called their language "Neshite".  It shows every
evidence of being intrusive in the area which constituted the heartland of
the Hittite kingdom.

The area east and southeast of the Hittites was non-Indo-European throughout
recorded history until the intrusion of Armenian -- eg., in the early Iron
Age, Armenia was occupied by the Urartian kingdom, which spoke a non-IE
language related to Hurrian. Evidence for Hurrian and languages related to
Hurrian in eastern Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia goes back well into the
3rd millenium BCE.

>FROM western Anatolia, and from this population's subsequent separation from
>its western Anatolian roots.

-- proto-Anatolian couldn't possibly have been _ancestral_ to
proto-Indo-European.  And the degree of differentiation doesn't suggest a
prolonged separation.

All theories which posit an Anatolian homeland for PIE or PIH run into this
problem.