Scenario of language replacement

[Steve Farmer]

I wrote carelessly:

> Indo-European languages
> didn't just replace earlier languages in northern South Asia in
> the second and first millennia BCE. They also replaced earlier
> languages in vast portions of Eurasia, including of course
> Anatolia, Greece, and the Italian peninsula.

I was thinking of language replacement in general not requiring
the incursion of large numbers of people, including cases where
one Indo-European language replaces another. Acculturation works
as efficiently as invasion -- as currently seen in the global
spread of English.