Pre-PIE as a PIE substrate?

[proto-language]

Dear Ante and IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ante Aikio" <anaikio at mail.student.oulu.fi>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 2:26 AM

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> And in addition to this, the western Uralic languages have a huge amount
> of words of unknown origin. It seems that one is dealing here with an
> extensive lexical substrate not unlike that in Germanic. Because the
> putative substrate words look nothing like Indo-European (having e.g.
> affricates and palatalized consonants), there must have been non-Uralic
> and non-IE substrate languages in the Baltic Sea area. The Uralic data
> does not seem to support the idea that there would have been some kind of
> "para-IE" languages in this area before the arrival of the predecessors of
> northwest IE langauges in the region.

[PR]

Is there an available listing of these substrate roots?

Pat

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