Turkish scholar, Polat Kaya, has recently offered a translation of one of the inscriptions on Lemnos, based on his theory that it reflects a language related to Turkish. However, in the period of the putative date of the inscription the Turkish people lived several thousand miles away in southeastern Siberia. They began to migrate westward only about 300 AD, a fact that has hindered acceptance of Kaya's translation. This theory is almost unanimously ignored by scholars.
Romanian scholar Nicolae Densusianu considered the Pelasgian to be a
proto-Latin speaking people. He offered a translation for the inscriptions on Lemnos in his study, Dacia Preistorica.
A greek Thomopoulos has recorded
Greek and
Albanian Pelasgic although inputs some
celtic.
an interesting thesis is
Robert Graves who connects them with N Ireland Welsh and west islands in Scotland, comparing their religion.
A Hebrew PHD of Tel-Aviv Jehunda gives clear connection of Greek-Pelasgic with Hebrew-
Aramaic and puts them both in Syrria and Cilicia.
French Zacharie Mayani put forth a thesis that the
Etruscan language had links to the
Albanian language. This thesis places the Albanian language outside the group of Indo-European languages sharing one branch with Etruscans as well as
ancient Greek. Nermin Vlora Falaschi published a translation of the Lemnos stele on this basis, with the help of Arvanite Albanian. The references below by Falaschi, Catapano, Marchiano, Mathieu Aref, Faverial, D'Angely, and Cabej support this point of view.
Georgian scholars M.G. Tseretheli, R.V. Gordeziani, M. Abdushelishvili, Zviad Gamsakhurdiaconnect the Pelasgian with the Iberian-Caucasian cultures of the prehistoric Caucasus, known to the Greeks as Colchis. This may sound plausible since there were many autochthonic Caucasian peoples dwelling in Anatolia such as the
Hattians before the arrival of the Indo-Europeans.
The great Pelasgian empire
(The Pelasgian language)
The two Pelasgian dialects, Latin and Arimic.
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