--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> True. And Lappish wasn't yet spoken in Lapland in PIE times. Maybe
the biological ancestors of the Saami lived in Northern Europe at the
time, but their Finno-Ugric _language_ must have been brought much
more recently from some other place, or there would not be so many
Iranian loans in it. Note also that the putative non-IE substrate in
Germanic is _not_ Finno-Ugric.
>
But is there a non-Finno-Ugric substrate in Saami? If yes, is that
identical to the non-IE substrate in Germanic?
Torsten