Europic

Europic is a hypothetic language family proposed by Jörg Rhiemeier. It consists of Indo-European and Old European (to which the Albic family belongs).

Proto-Europic was spoken around the year 6000 BC on the northern shore of the Euxine Lake (a freshwater lake in the area of, but somewhat smaller than, the Black Sea). The Proto-Europic homeland was destroyed between 5600 and 5500 BC when the sea level rose enought to breach through the Bosporus and the area was inundated in the catastrophc flooding which formed the Black Sea as we know it. Refugees took the language north, where it evolved into Indo-European, and west, where it evolved into Old European. The speakers of Old European were the first Neolithic farmers in central Europe, the bearers of the Linear Pottery culture.