LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN PREHISTORY

This paper proposes a reconstruction of the language of Europe north of the Alps before the advent of Indo-European. It contains the following sections: 1. Purpose. 2. Krahe's ‘Old European hydronymy’. 3. On the Old European toponymy. 4. A critique of Krahe's morphology of the Old European hydronymy. 5. The agglutinating structure of the language of the Old European toponymy. 6. The non-Indo-European character of the language of the Old European toponymy. 7. Grammatical sketch of the language of the Old European toponymy. 8. Structural and substantive similarities between the language of the Old European toponymy and Basque. 9. The origin of the language of the Old European toponymy.