I was realy hoping to identify the L linguistic group, but they might be long extinct. A people who invented Ale, the Sail, and Light sound like an interesting people considering their global influence was from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
My lists of names are reducing rapidly to Spanish, Irish, French, Scottish, English. I dont think I'm going to find L dominance there. Like the shift experienced by the Norse evolving to Finnish, the influences are likely not as ancient. Further remnants will be found in dictionaries.
Historical clusters, like mask-wearing peoples huddled together on a plateau, or that pre-Iroquois females were developing the same language trends as pre-Cornish/Briton females as though they were in the same family. The idea that L group might have used some primitive form of Ale as a nutritional supplement for long sea voyages as they searched for light as signs of life are beyond amazing.
I just got 'pinged' that Tiger Woods had to be cut out of a vehicle crash and taken to hospital...
Where was I? There is certainly a lot of Linguistic Archaeology to be discovered. I think of some ancient human sticking a feather on a leaf and blowing on it in a puddle to invent that first sail boat.
Its certainly all useful if you are looking to do some fantasy/fiction world-building.
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