Pre-Indo-European means "preceding
Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent, most of Europe, and the Iranian plateau with additional native branches found in regions such as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, parts of Central Asia (e. ...
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Pre-Indo-European may refer to:
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Pre-Indo-European languages
The pre-Indo-European languages are any of several ancient languages, not necessarily related to one another, that existed in Prehistoric Europe, Asia Minor, Ancient Iran and United Nations geoscheme for Asia#Southern_Asia, Southern Asia before ...
, 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. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-Eur ...
, 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-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas to describe what she perceived as a relatively homogeneous pre-Indo-European Neolithic and Copper Age culture or civilisation in Southeast Europe, centred in th ...
, a Neolithic culture in southeastern Europe before the arrival of speakers of Indo-European languages
See also
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Pre-Germanic (disambiguation)
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Indo-European (disambiguation)
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Neolithic Europe
The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers in Europe, (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) until –1700 BC (t ...
, the period when Neolithic technology was present in Europe, roughly 7000 BCE to 1700 BCE
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Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses, proposed homeland of the common ancestor of Indo-European languages
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Pre-Greek substrate
The pre-Greek substrate (or substratum) consists of the unknown pre-Greek language or languages (either Pre-Indo-European languages, Pre-Indo-European or other Indo-European languages) spoken in prehistoric Greece prior to the emergence of the Pr ...
, unknown language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the Proto-Greek language
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Pre-Celtic, prehistory of Central and Western Europe before the expansion of the Celts
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Vasconic substratum theory, proposal that several Western European languages contain remnants of an old language family of Vasconic languages
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