Re: Who were the Aryans?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TT Arvind
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I wonder if the Etruscan 'aisar' ("gods", in the plural) was related.  
>Does anyone know if Etruscan is thought to have been Indo-European?

It's not known what Etruscan was, but it is known that it wasn't Indo-
European. There's evidence of a similar language spoken on one of the
Aegean islands (Lesbos, IIRC), and beyond that speculation about
relationships to Basque, to (North) Caucasian, and to Pelasgian (the
pre-Hellenic language of Greece, known principally or only from loan
words in Greek).
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Stewart Robert Hinsley