Friday, March 25, 2005

For a long time I thought the Trojans were Greeks too, a different kind of Greek, but I've just found out that they actually spoke "Luvian," an Indo-European language (sub-family: Anatolian) related to Hittite. Google thinks I might be interested in meeting "Luvian Singles."

Cassandra, Alexander, Scamandrus, Meander, Leander — is that a Luvian ending??

I've read that Etruscan might be a language related to Luvian, and not an isolate after all. I know you can't believe everything you read on the internet, but it's an awfully intriguing possibility. It would corroborate Herodotus's story about the origins of the Etruscans, and, of course, Virgil, considering that most of the seven kings of Rome were Etruscan. Maecenas, after all, had Etruscans forebears.

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