Pre-Indo-European means "preceding
Indo-European languages".
Pre-Indo-European may refer to:
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Pre-Indo-European languages
The Pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe and Southern Asia before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages. The oldest Indo-Europe ...
, several (not necessarily related) ancient languages in prehistoric Europe and South Asia before the arrival of Indo-European languages
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Pre-Proto-Indo-European, theoretical reconstruction of language earlier than the Proto-Indo-European language
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Old Europe (archaeology), a Neolithic culture in southeastern Europe before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages
See also
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Pre-Germanic (disambiguation)
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Indo-European (disambiguation)
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Neolithic Europe
The European Neolithic is the period when Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology was present in Europe, roughly between 7000 BCE (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) and c.2000–1700 BCE (the beginning of the Bronze Age ...
, the period when Neolithic technology was present in Europe, roughly 7000 BCE to 1700 BCE
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Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses
The Proto-Indo-European homeland (or Indo-European homeland) was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). From this region, its speakers migrated east and west, and went on to form the proto-communities of ...
, proposed homeland of the common ancestor of Indo-European languages
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Pre-Greek substrate
The Pre-Greek substrate (or Pre-Greek substratum) consists of the unknown pre-Indo-European language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the coming of the Proto-Greek language in the Greek peninsula during the Bronze Age. It is possible that ...
, unknown language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the Proto-Greek language
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Pre-Celtic, prehistory of Central and Western Europe before the expansion of the Celts
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Vasconic substratum theory, proposal that several Western European languages contain remnants of an old language family of Vasconic languages
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