Re: [tied] No person and number endings in IE Nordwestblock?

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From: tgpedersen

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:51 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] No person and number endings in IE Nordwestblock?

 

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>   I did not say that Nordic physical types were the substrate, and
autochthonous. That is what you are saying, is that not right?
>

No. I am talking about languages.


>   Rather, I think it likelier that Nordic physical types speaking
a non-IE language invaded Northern territory already inhabited by
PIE-speaking ethnics.

Erh, what? Where did that come from?


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Patrick:

Well, let us approach this in an different way.

 

What were the family affinities of the languages spoken in Northern Germany — in the order of their earliest appearances — according to your views?

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