The language of Schytians

From: Michael Smith
Message: 39883
Date: 2005-09-07

Thoughts?:


--- In scythia@yahoogroups.com, Tonyukuk Kagan <tonyukuk_kagan@...>
wrote:

The most politically and convincing hyphotesis put forward regarding
the language of Schytians up to this day is that the one that is of
the opinion that They spoke a Proto- Bulgaric (Turkic) dialect. I
will touch upon some of linquistic materials which have survived to
the present day from Schytian below.I will try to denoting the quite
appearent connections between Proto-Bulgars and Schytians by the
light of written sources in my spare time)

No inquistic text belonging to Schytians with the exception of that
written on a silver cup written on a flat silver drinking-cup, was
found in 1970 in a royal tomb unearthed in the vicinity of the
Kazakh capital Alma-atý.It was easily deciphered with the help of
Turkic.Olcas Suleymanov read it in that way; Suleymanov's
decipherment is accepted to be the most convincing one in the
scholarly milieu.

Han uya üç otuzu (da) yok boltý, utýgsý tozýltý. ''the son of the
Khan died when he was 13 with his death His people died out

Indo-Europanist's failure to decipher ýt with the means of Iranian
dialects is publicly known and Nothing has resulted from their
attemps to explain the same writing as yet.

Outside of the Schytian writing found in the vicinity of Alma-
atý .The most significant Schytian linquistic materials are those
decipherment by Andreas David Mortdman.What are mentioned below
revolve around the linquistic relics Schytians left found on the
cuneiform tablets built of bricks in the neighboorhood of the city
of Sus deciphered by Mordtmann .Schytians are reputed to have left
those linquistic relics during their raids into the region under
the authority of Persian empire.The list of Mordtmann is as stated
below

Anira,Arta,Ata,Attata,Attari,Atýva,Atza,Balu,Dalva,Dalva
açtý,Dalduka,Dalduk,Du,Evidu,

Gami,Gik,I,Ývaka,Kappika,Karata,Katzavana,Kýçý,Kutis,Kutta,Piri,Rilu,
Chagra,Çatanika,Taka,Tan,Tap

Tarna,tarti,Taufa,Týrý,Ufarri,Ut,Vara,Val,Tarra,Vit,Vurun

The most remerkable feature associated with those words is that
Almost all of verbs have Turkic origin. In regard to the fact that
Any language cannot easily borrow verbs from another one,Mordtmann
appreciated the view that the language of Schytians was a Turkic
dialect.

As opposide to Iranic assumption,the baseles view based on political
reasons rather than historical and linquistic ones,Turkic theory is
unrivalled at being candidate for their language.The worst part is
that Heredotus,our seemingly only source about Schytians, who writes
about a Persian invasion of Schytia very specifically says that
Schytians were all the way different from Iranic speaking Persians
both linquistically and culturally.This also contradicts to Iranic
theory.I will explain ,in the future, more detailed information
concerning Schytian linquistic materials If necessary


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