that they were borrowed from the same, probably non-Indo-European, source. Some scholars have thus proposed that at least part of the pre-Greek substrate was brought to Greece by pre-Indo-European settlers from Asia Minor, and that we should distinguish between different layers of loanwords coming successively or concurrently from different families of languages.

While the correlations between Anatolian and Greek placenames may be a strong indication of a common early phase of Indo-Europeanpossibly