Pre-Indo-European means "preceding
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...
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Pre-Indo-European may refer to:
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Pre-Indo-European languages, 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
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo-E ...
, theoretical reconstruction of language earlier than the Proto-Indo-European language
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Old Europe (archaeology)
Old Europe is a term coined by the Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age cultural horizon or civilisation in Southeastern Europe and part o ...
, a Neolithic culture in southeastern Europe before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages
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Pre-Germanic (disambiguation) Pre-Germanic may refer to
*the predecessor of Common Germanic, see Germanic parent language
*a language spoken before the arrival of Germanic speakers during the Migration period, see
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Indo-European (disambiguation)
Indo-European is a major language family of Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.
Indo-European may also refer to:
* Proto-Indo-European language, the reconstructed common ancestor of all Indo-European languages
* Proto-Indo-Europeans (or “Ind ...
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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 Ag ...
, 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, unknown language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the Proto-Greek language
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Pre-Celtic
The pre-Celtic period in the prehistory of Central Europe and Western Europe occurred before the expansion of the Celts or their culture in Iron Age Europe and Anatolia (9th to 6th centuries BC), but after the emergence of the Proto-Celtic lang ...
, prehistory of Central and Western Europe before the expansion of the Celts
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Vasconic substratum theory
The Vasconic substrate hypothesis is a proposal that several Western European languages contain remnants of an old language family of Vasconic languages, of which Basque is the only surviving member. The proposal was made by the German linguist ...
, proposal that several Western European languages contain remnants of an old language family of Vasconic languages
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