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en-wikipedia-org-9177		Pre-Greek substrate - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3382	540	71	Some modern linguists such as Robert Beekes and José Luís García-Ramón hold that the pre-Greek substrate spoken in the southern Balkans was non-Indo-European.[3][4] Other scholars have proposed that this substrate was brought to Greece by pre-Indo-European Anatolian settlers.[27][28] In most cases, it is impossible to distinguish between substrate words and loans from Asia Minor, and terms like τολύπη (tolúpē; 'clew, ball of wool ready for spinning') show typical pre-Greek features while being related to Anatolian words (in this case Luwian and Hittite taluppa/i'lump, clod') with no common Indo-European etymology, suggesting that they were borrowed into both Ancient Greek and Anatolian languages from the same substrate.[28] Brown, after listing a number of words of pre-Greek origin from Crete, suggests a relation between Minoan, Eteocretan, Lemnian (Pelasgian), and Tyrrhenian, inventing the name "Aegeo-Asianic" for the proposed language family.[33] Furnée proposed a theory by which a pre-Greek substrate is associated with the Kartvelian languages.[38]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9177.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9177.txt