Pre-Indo-European means "preceding an indoeuropean 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
  • Substrate in Vedic Sanskrit
    • Harappan language
  • Pre-Greek substrate
    • Pelasgian
    • Eteocretan
    • Eteocypriot
  • Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni
  • Pre-Germanic
    • Germanic substrate hypothesis
  • Pre-Celtic or "para-Celtic"
    • Continental Pre-Celtic:
      • Ligurian language
      • Lusitanian language
    • Pre-Celtic of the British Isles
      • Pictish language
  • Tyrrhenian languages
  • Vasconic languages
    • Vasconic substratum hypothesis
    • Atlantic (Semitic) languages
  • Hurro-Urartian languages (substrate in Anatolian)
  • Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

[edit] See also

• Neolithic Europe
• Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses

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