Pre-Indo-European

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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
  • 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

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