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Pre-Indo-European languages

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Basque
language of the Basque people
Dravidian
language family mostly of southern India
Etruscan
ancient Mediterranean language
Elamite
ancient language in Mesopotamia
Hattic
extinct language of Turkey
Hurro-Urartian
extinct language family
Sicani
right|thumb|250px|Approximate locations of the Elymians and their neighbors, the Sicani and the Sicels, in [[Sicily around 11th century BC (before the arrival of the Phoenicians and the Greeks).]] The Sicani or Sicanians were one of three ancient peoples of Sicily present at the time of Phoenician and Greek colonization. The Sicani dwelt east of the Elymians and west of the Sicels, having, according to Diodorus Siculus, the boundary with the last in the ancient Himera river (Salso) after a series of battles between these tribes.
Tyrsenian
hypothetical language family
Iberian
the language of an indigenous pre-Migration Period people identified by Greco-Roman sources, living in the eastern/southeastern Iberian Peninsula between the 7th and 1st century BCE; became extinct by 2nd century CE
Aquitanian
Vasconic language or group of languages
Pre-Indo-European languages
languages of Europe and South Asia before the arrival of Indo-European languages
Ligurian
extinct ancient language, spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by the Ligures, in what is now north-western Italy and south-eastern France (for the Romance language use Q36106)
Eteocretan
pre-Greek language attested in a few alphabetic inscriptions of ancient Crete between the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE
Tartessian
extinct unclassified language of southwest Iberia
Eteocypriot
language
Minoan
language of Minoan culture
Paleohispanic
languages of the Pre-Roman non-Greek peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
Vedda
language of the Vedda people
pre-Greek substrate
unknown pre-Indo-European language(s) spoken in prehistoric Greece before the coming of the Proto-Greek language in the Greek peninsula during the Bronze Age
Proto-Dravidian
linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages
Proto-Basque
proto-language
Camunic
language
Vasconic
proposed language family including Basque and Aquitanian
Harappan
unknown language or languages of the Harappan civilization
Paleo-European languages
European languages that are not a member of the Indo-European, Uralic, Turkic, or Afroasiatic language families
Vasconic substratum theory
linguistic theory
Paleo-Sardinian
Extinct language isolate indigenous to the island of Sardinia
Germanic substrate hypothesis
hypothesis
Pontic
proposed language macrofamily, comprising the Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian language families
substratum in Vedic Sanskrit
occurrence of non-Indo-Aryan etymons in Vedic Sanskrit
Atlantic (Semitic) languages
disputed Pre-Indo-European language family
Pre-Finno-Ugric substrate
category of words in some Uralic languages