Atlantic (Semitic) languages

Atlantic Semitiden is a controversial term used in linguistics. He was, inter alia, by Theo Vennemann used, which represents the theory of Vaskonischen language, a European proto-language. After Vennemann the Atlantic Semitiden, also Atlanticist or Atlanteans are mentioned, a Semito - Hamitic ( Afro-Asiatic ) group, the BC of North Africa from the European Atlantic coast from the sea populated from about 5000 and the Megalithic to have spread there. Your biggest expansion reached about the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, southern Sweden. He assumes that this group spoke a Semitic language that was deposited as superstrate on the vaskonische original language of Europe. As an example he leads a hypothetical root word for " bee " (cf. althd. Bi -ni altpreuß. Bi- tte, altir. Bech < * bhi -ko - "Bee " ), with the beekeeping from Egypt along the Atlantic coast wandered in the European languages ​​and is present there as a substrate in the westindogermanischen languages. The Atlanteans are next to seafaring and farming, animal husbandry and fruit culture have operated and have spread along the coasts and rivers of western and northern Europe. The theory is discussed, inter alia, by Dieter H. Steinbauer, but overall is very thin and blurred. Archaeological evidence is lacking entirely, nor for any of the place names with megalithic culture, there has been a linguistic derivation of the Atlantic hypothetical language.