Pre-Indo-European

Pre-Indo-European means "preceding an Indo-European language". It may refer to various languages or linguistic hypotheses depending on the context:

• Pre-Proto-Indo-European: for internal reconstruction aiming at the recovery of a stage earlier than the Proto-Indo-European language
• Old European culture: for pre-Indo-European as used by Marija Gimbutas
• Indo-European substrate hypotheses
• Pre-Indo-European languages: for several (not necessarily related) non-classified languages that existed in prehistoric Europe and South Asia before the arrival of bearers of Indo-European languages

See also

• Neolithic Europe
• Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses
• Pre-Greek
• Pre-Celtic
• Pre-Germanic