Re: [tied] Re: Daci

From: altamix
Message: 12666
Date: 2002-03-13

 
Hi Piotr
just one more question on this topic.
If we do not know anything about Daciaan langauge, how we can assume if something come from it or not?
Is not preposterous to do that?
Piotr wrote:
This has nothing to do with Thraco-Getic "roots". Areal innovations emerge at different points within the Sprachbund and spread rather quickly, forming many historical layers that obscure the earlier stages; their present-day configuration tells us practically nothing about the state of affairs two millennia ago, when the ethnolinguistic map of the Balkans was quite different.