Mother Tongue Journal

Issue XXVI • 2025

In Memory of

Pierre Bancel

Vitaly Shevoroshkin

Christopher Ehret

Colin Renfrew

Edited by Gregory Haynes
Published by the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP)
ISSN 1087-0326

Contents

In Memoriam
Pierre Bancel (1958–2025)
Magali Bancel
pp. 1–3 • [PDF]
Vitaly V. Shevoroshkin (1932–2023)
Irén Hegedűs and Václav Blažek
pp. 4–14 • [PDF]
In Memory of Christopher Ehret (July 27, 1941–March 25, 2025)
Patrick Manning
pp. 15–18 • [PDF]
Colin Renfrew: a note on his interests outside archaeology
Roger Blench
pp. 19–21 • [PDF]
Articles
Genetics and the Prehistory of Dravidian Languages
Sundar Narayan
pp. 23–49 • [PDF]
Etruscan–Hurro-Urartian Relations
Václav Blažek
pp. 51–71 • [PDF]
The Puzzle of Pan-African Roots
Roger Blench
pp. 73–100 • [PDF]
Remarks on Spanish conmigo, contigo, consigo
Jan Henrik Holst
pp. 101–112 • [PDF]
Language Origins and Group Behavior: Proto-speech, Syntactic Language, and Spread of Language
Patrick Manning
pp. 113–144 • [PDF]
The Pre-Indo-European Substratum in the British Isles and the Pre-Uralic Substratum in Fennoscandia: Traces of Common Origin
Václav Blažek
pp. 145–148 • [PDF]
Revisiting Greek ἄχθος
Gregory Haynes
pp. 149–160 • [PDF]
Book Review
Review of Jan Henrik Holst, Proposals for the diachronic interpretation of Tocharian
Carsten Peust
pp. 161–167 • [PDF]

About Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue is the journal of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP). It publishes articles on long-distance language relationships, comparative and historical linguistics, archaeology, population genetics, and comparative mythology as they relate to the study of language in prehistory.

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