Sarmatians spoke a language cognate with Scythian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > --- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
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> > >
> > > Knowing from history, the Scythian invasions in
> > > Dacia and Balkans,
> > > (first one around sec VII-V BCE , last one sec III-V
> > > CE) I think that
> > > this transformation was trigerred when the local
> > > population has tried
> > > to adapt his own pronunciation to the Scythian
> > > ocuppiers that
> > > pronounced an r for any l.
> >
> > *****GK: (1)There were no Scythian invasions of "Dacia
> > and Balkans" in the 3rd-5th c. AD. As Pliny the Elder
> > remarked ca. 77 AD "nomen Scytharum usquequaque
> > transiit in Sarmatas et Germanos"...Of the classical
> > Scythian state, the remaining small organization in
> > the Crimea was conquered by the Bosporans at the very
> > end of the 2nd c. AD.
> > (2) Leaving the "Scythian" Goths aside, and dismissing
> > the Eastern Roman notion of Attila's Huns as "Royal
> > Scythians", we have evidence of "Sarmats" (Iazygi and
> > Roxolani) and Alans in the area. We have practically
> > no knowledge of the "Sarmat" dialect(s), but Alanic
> > certainly did not "pronounce an r for any l". "Alans"
> > for "Aryans"...*****

Regarding the Sarmatian ans Scythian links: "Sarmatians spoke a
language cognate with Scythian"


"
Sarmatians, Sarmatae or Sauromatae (the second form is mostly used
by the earlier Greek writers, the other by the later Greeks and the
Romans) were a people whom Herodotus (4.21-117) in the 5th century
BC put on the eastern boundary of Scythia beyond the Tanais (Don).
They were a proto-Iranian people akin to the Scythians (Saka.)
Many historians believe that they were not pure Scythians, but,
being descended from young Scythian men and Amazons, spoke an impure
dialect and allowed their women to take part in war and to enjoy
much freedom. Later writers call some of them the "woman-ruled
Sarmatae." Hippocrates (De Aere, etc., 24) classes them as Scythian.
From this we may infer that they spoke a language cognate with
Scythian.
[..]
"

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