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It’s not irrelevant. It suggests that there was at least contact between the two groups of people/regions. Regardless, related to Etruscan or not, Lemnian is not considered to be a Thracian, or even Indo-European, language.

A) nobody said Anatolian languages were Semitic. B) Luwian was not from 3000 BCE. Anatolian IE languages are thought to have split off from the main body of PIE around 3000 BCE.

Sorry, I got locked out of my account. That link you posted is a watered down version of the paper this thread is based on. It’s also the exact same information I used when I was suggesting that the Greco-Armenians came through the Caucasus and split there, and then the Greeks traveled from...