Re: [tied] Check out Origin of Ancient Languages

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: jpisc98357@...
> > >
> > > Somehow I just don't think that Latvian and the
> > other Baltic languages which probably split with
> > with German in the early 1st Millenium BC could be
> > either ancestral or sister languages with Hittite,
> > Pharonic Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, Indus Valley
> > or any other ancient language.
> >
> > (Piotr)They possibly branched off from Slavic about
> 1000
> > BC, give or take a few centuries, but their genetic
> > relationship to Germanic is more distant -- a common
> > ancestor in the fourth millennium BC or so, more
> > likely.
>

Given that the western Baltic languages (ie Old Prussian) are
affiliated somehow with the Germanic languages and (if you believe
this

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~histling/nytarticle.html

article) that Germanic was first influenced by Balto-Slavic, then by
Celtic, is it possible that there was once a dialect continuum on the
South shore of the Baltic between the Baltic (Old Prussian) languages
in (East) Prussia and the (Old) Germanic languages of Denmark and
Sweden, a continuum that was breached by a Celtic colonization of the
South shore (cf. Tacitus' remark that the Aestii spoke a language
similar to that of the Britons)?

Torsten


Torsten