From: Lisa Darie
Message: 23687
Date: 2003-06-21
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:37:29 -0400 (EDT), Lisa Darie
<elixir032000@...> wrote:
>The Indo-Iranian word dusman is in Urdu, Nepali, Kashmiri, Dari spoken in Afganistan, Farsi spoken in Iran, Romanian and Albanian languages. The Thracians, Cimmerians, Scythians and Sarmatians are considered of Iranian origin.
Only the Scythians and Sarmatians are.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...Based on written evidence from Herodotus, Lygdamis and others and linguistic evidence from the names of their kings preserved in the Assyrian documents the Cimmerians were of Iranian origin. (The Ancient Near East by W.W. Hallo, W. Kelly Simpson)