IE creole?

[Theo Vennemann]

There are people (have been for 99 years) assuming that Semitic or closely
related languages were spoken in the British Isles.

On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 manaster at umich.edu wrote:

>There are people who assume that PIE was spoken in Anatolia or
>nearby.

>On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 GregWeb at aol.com wrote:

>>Could someone explain how PIE itself, not its daughter languages, could have
>>been in contact with a semitic language, let alone proto-semitic.  I thought
>>that Semitic languages would be moving nto Mesopotamia from the southwest at
>>a time when PIE was still north of that entire area.  I know that daughter
>>languages of PIE were later in contact with Semitic languages, but I do not
>>see how geographically PIE and proto-Semitic or any semitic language would
>>have been in contact so as to influence the development of PIE itself.