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=== Reception === The theory that Pelasgian was an Indo-European language, which "fascinated scholars" and concentrated research during the second part of the 20th century, has since been critiqued; an emerging consensus among modern linguists is that the [[Stratum (linguistics)|substrate language]] spoken in the southern [[Balkans]] was [[Pre–Indo-European languages|non-Indo-European]].{{Sfn|Beekes|2014|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=bomIBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 1]}} García-Ramón remarked that {{qi|the attempt to determine phonological rules for an Indo-European pre-Greek language ('Pelasgian') [...] is considered a complete failure today}},{{Sfn|García-Ramón|2004|pp=999–1000}} while Beekes (2018) notes that {{qi|one of the demerits of Georgiev's Pelasgian theory was that it drew attention away from the Pre-Greek material itself}}, concluding that {{qi|the search for Pelasgian was an expensive and useless distraction.}}{{Sfn|Beekes|2018|loc="109. Pelasgian", pp. 1873–1874}} However, Biliana Mihaylova finds no contradiction between {{qi|the idea of [an] Indo-European Pre-Greek substratum}} and {{qi|the possibility of the existence of an earlier non-Indo-European layer in Greece}} given certain Pre-Greek words possessing Indo-European {{qi|pattern[s] of word formation.}}{{Sfn|Mihaylova|2012|pp=80–81}}
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