An interesting admission by the reviewer Tom Palaima when discussing the specifically Semitic contributions to pre-greek substrate:
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This would place the balkan-greek substrates in a Basque-etruscan-tyrrhenian- rhaetic- lemnian- cretan- pelasgian- kartvellian- circassian- chechen continuum. Palaima's specific arguments about semetic are irrelevent as far as india outbound migrations are concerned.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The lexicon of ancient Greek is noteworthy for the large proportion of potentially non-Indo-European words (60 per cent or more). link<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
This would place the balkan-greek substrates in a Basque-etruscan-tyrrhenian- rhaetic- lemnian- cretan- pelasgian- kartvellian- circassian- chechen continuum. Palaima's specific arguments about semetic are irrelevent as far as india outbound migrations are concerned.