2017-07-27T22:24:14+03:00[Europe/Moscow] en true Eteocypriot language, Pictish language, Aquitanian language, Basques, Ligurian language (ancient), Pre-Indo-European languages, Umbrian language, Venetic language, Eteocretan language, Proto-Dravidian language, Sicani, Iberian language, Paleo-Sardinian language, North Picene language, Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, Old Europe (archaeology), Elymian language, Trojan language, Nuragic civilization, Vinča symbols, Proto-Indo-European homeland, Harappan language flashcards
Pre-Indo-Europeans

Pre-Indo-Europeans

  • Eteocypriot language
    Eteocypriot was a pre-Indo-European language spoken in Iron Age Cyprus.
  • Pictish language
    Pictish is the extinct language, or dialect, spoken by the Picts, the people of northern and central Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.
  • Aquitanian language
    The Aquitanian language was spoken on both sides of the western Pyrenees in ancient Aquitaine (approximately between the Pyrenees and the Garonne, the region later known as Gascony) and in the areas south of the Pyrenees in the valleys of the Basque Country before the Roman conquest.
  • Basques
    The Basques (Basque: euskaldunak; Spanish: vascos; French: basques, English: /bɑːsks/ or /bæsks/) are an indigenous ethnic group characterised by the Basque language, a common Basque culture and shared ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.
  • Ligurian language (ancient)
    The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and south-eastern France known as the Ligures.
  • Pre-Indo-European languages
    Pre-Indo-European languages are any of several old languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in prehistoric Europe and South Asia before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages.
  • Umbrian language
    Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken by the Umbri in the ancient Italian region of Umbria.
  • Venetic language
    Venetic is an extinct Indo-European language that was spoken in ancient times in the North East of Italy (Veneto) and part of modern Slovenia, between the Po River delta and the southern fringe of the Alps.
  • Eteocretan language
    Eteocretan /ˌiːtɪoʊˈkriːtən, ˌɛt-/ (lit. "true Cretan", from Greek ἐτεός, meaning "true" + Cretan) is the non-Greek language of a few alphabetic inscriptions of ancient Crete.
  • Proto-Dravidian language
    Proto-Dravidian is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages.
  • Sicani
    The Sicani (Greek Σικανοί Sikanoi) or Sicanians were one of three ancient peoples of Sicily present at the time of Phoenician and Greek colonization.
  • Iberian language
    The Iberian language was the language of a people identified by Greek and Roman sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian Peninsula.
  • Paleo-Sardinian language
    Paleo-Sardinian, also known as Proto-Sardinian or even Nuragic, is an extinct language (or perhaps languages) spoken in Sardinia (and possibly Corsica) during the Bronze Age, which is thought to have left traces in the onomastics of the island and in the modern Sardinian language.
  • North Picene language
    North Picene is an ancient language, believed to have been spoken in part of north eastern Italy.
  • Cucuteni-Trypillian culture
    The Cucuteni-Trypillian culture (known as Cucuteni in Romanian and Trypilska Трипільська in Ukrainian), is a Neolithic–Eneolithic archaeological culture (ca. 6000 to 3500 BC) in Eastern Europe.
  • Old Europe (archaeology)
    Old Europe is a term coined by archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic culture in southeastern Europe located in the Danube River valley, also known as Danubian culture.
  • Elymian language
    Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian people of western Sicily.
  • Trojan language
    The language spoken by the Trojans in the Iliad is Homeric Greek.
  • Nuragic civilization
    The Nuragic civilization, born and developed in Sardinia, the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, lasted from the Bronze Age (18th century BC) to the 2nd century AD.
  • Vinča symbols
    The Vinča symbols, sometimes called the Vinča signs, Vinča script, Vinča-Turdaș script, Old European script, etc.
  • Proto-Indo-European homeland
    The Proto-Indo-European homeland (or Indo-European homeland) is the prehistoric urheimat of the Indo-European languages, the region where their reconstructed common ancestor, the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE), was originally spoken.
  • Harappan language
    The Harappan language (AKA the Indus or Mohenjo-Daro language) is the unknown language or languages of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BCE) Harappan civilization (Indus Valley Civilization, or 'IVC').