Pre-Indo-European may refer to various languages or linguistic hypotheses depending on the context:

• pre-Proto-Indo-European: for internal reconstruction aiming at the recovery of a stage earlier than the Proto-Indo-European language
• Old European culture: for pre-Indo-European as used by Marija Gimbutas.
• Indo-European substrate hypotheses
  • Substrate in Vedic Sanskrit
  • Pre-Greek substrate
    • Pelasgian
    • Eteocretan
    • Eteocypriot
  • Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni
  • Pre-Germanic
    • Germanic substrate hypothesis
  • Pre-Celtic
  • Tyrrhenian languages
  • Vasconic languages
    • Atlantic (semitic) languages
  • Hurro-Urartian languages (substrate in Anatolian)
  • Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

See also

• Neolithic Europe
• Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses