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Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin... by Max-Ganz-II on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:12PM (#33627758)
I may be wrong, but I understand it is not the only pre-PIE language in Europe.

I believe Finnish and Hungarian are two others, and there are a couple more, with much smaller numbers of speakers.

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Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin... by jdminhbg on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:20PM (#33627899)
Finnish and Hungarian are non-IE, but they are not pre-IE, they are Uralic languages that also entered Europe through migration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages#History
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Re:Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origin... by Max-Ganz-II on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:00PM (#33632172)
Ah, so! thankyou. It's all fascinating :-)
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