From my research, Im inclined to think that Etruscan and Minoan are a bit distantly related to Anatolian. I dont know if itll ever make much of a difference in my studies, as they all seem very slightly attested. Minoan is important to my specialization with all the logographic scripts because Minoan is the language behind the Cretan Hieroglyphs, though it doesnt make much difference because its one of those systems thats undecipherable, like Indus, so all you can do is study the signs and any iconographic overlap. Im also interested in pre-PIE level historical linguistics. I follow Merritt Ruhlens model, I think I see something to it. As far as research goes, I dont get too into it, because I like to work with texts and because I like what I do with logographic scripts. Thoughts? Aegean language family[edit] A larger Aegean family including Eteocretan (Minoan language) and Eteocypriot has been proposed by G.M. Facchetti, and is supported by S. Yatsemirsky in Russia, referring to some alleged similarities between the Etruscan language and ancient Lemnian (an Aegean language widely thought to be related to Etruscan), and some Ancient Aegean languages: such as Minoan and Eteocretan. If these languages could be shown to be related to Etruscan and Rhaetic, they would constitute a pre-Indo-European family stretching from (at the very least) the Aegean islands and Crete across mainland Greece and the Italian peninsula to the Alps. Facchetti proposes a hypothetical language family derived from Minoan in two branches. From Minoan he proposes a Proto-Tyrrhenian from which would have come the Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic languages. James Mellaart has proposed that this language family is related to the pre-Indo-European Anatolian languages, based upon place name analysis.[3] From another Minoan branch would have come the Eteocretan language.[4] However, this is by no means a common view; there are equally serious attempts to link Eteocretan and Eteocypriot with Semitic, and mainstream scholarship takes no position. Facchetti himself claims that it is only a hypothesis. Anatolian languages[edit] A relation with the Anatolian languages within Indo-European has been proposed (Steinbauer 1999;[5] Palmer 1965), but is not generally accepted (although Leonard R. Palmer did show that some Linear A inscriptions were sensible as a variant of Luwian). If these languages are an early Indo-European stratum rather than pre-Indo-European, they would be associated with Krahes Old European hydronymy and would date back to a Kurganization during the early Bronze Age.
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