Re: Witzel and Sautsutras (was: Mapping the Origins and Expansion of

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> An interesting place to look, which, I believe Torsten commented on
> is Crimea, for the Sindos-Meotians (vel sim). They seem to have IE
> vocabulary absent from Vedic. Their language also seem lambdic as
> opposed to Vedic rhotcisms. The term Sindos, however, seems to me an
> exonym, perhaps applied to them by peoples who identified them with
> peoples of the Indus/Sindhos valley. Has anyone done any serious
> indepth research on this group?

Cyril (Kirill) Babaev, founder of this List, once had an online article which also covered the topic of the so-called "Pontic Aryan" language(s) and the former assessments of this question by Kretschmer and Trubachov. It can be retrieved here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060712182124/http://indoeuro.bizland.com/archive/article17.html

Sindes also is the name of a river (with persisting, pre-/non-Iranian s-) mentioned by Tacitus (Annales X.10); it divides the Dahae from the Arii, and thus refers to the Merw (Murghab) or Tedzhen river.

Regards,
Francesco