From: Rick McCallister
Message: 57235
Date: 2008-04-13
>There's a book that claims that Costa Rican Spanish
> > >
> > > ****GK: BTW AF has sent me a defence of his
> "Asiatic
> > > Germans" position. Purely linguistic. Is there
> any
> > > reason why he can't propose this to the cybalist
> > > community? He says he's "under embargo", but
> another
> > > post of his has just appeared here...****
> > > >
> > > >
> > For his proposal to work, I'd expect to see a
> > substantial Uralic adstrate in Gmc, probably some
> > parallels with Tokharian.
>
> Hm. How much adstrate would we see if the upper
> layer of the
> Ariovistus expansion were renegades from
> Mithridates' polyglot army?
> How much German adstrate is there in South and
> Central American Spanish?
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> BTW Ariovistus states in 58 BCE that he has been
> campaigning for
> fourteen years, ie. from 72 BCE. In 72 BCE was the
> battle of Cabira
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cabira
> http://tinyurl.com/5lkzu2 , 15
> and the Olthacus incident was at that time too.
> http://tinyurl.com/5lkzu2 , 16
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> Torsten
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