Pre-Indo-European

Pre-Indo-European means "preceding Indo-European". It may refer to various languages or linguistic or archaeological hypotheses depending on the context:

• Pre-Proto-Indo-European: for internal reconstruction aiming at the recovery of a stage earlier than the Proto-Indo-European language
• Old Europe (archaeology): the meaning of "pre-Indo-European" as used by Marija Gimbutas
• Pre-Indo-European languages: for several (not necessarily related) non-classified languages that existed in prehistoric Europe and South Asia before the arrival of bearers of Indo-European languages

See also

• Neolithic Europe
• Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses
• Pre-Greek substrate
• Pre-Celtic
• Pre-Germanic (disambiguation)
• Vasconic substratum theory