Re: Black Sea Indic

cyryll-@... wrote:
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/cybalist/?start=15

> tommy.tyrber-@... wrote:
> original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/cybalist/?start=12
> > I am interested in finding information on the Pontic Indo-Aryans.
> Where
> > have articles been published? Is Oleg Trubachov's available in
> America?
> > Also, are
> > there any publications on Scythian-Sarmatian linguistics/ethnograph

y?

> >
> >
> The standard work on the scythian language is apparently Abayev, V I
> 1949. "Skifskii yazyk i folklor". Akademiya Nauk SSSR,
> Moskva-Leningrad. I haven't seen this however, and there seems to be
> very little published outside Russia on this subject.

Yes, Abaev's work is really the largest on the matter. But his
conclusions and even etymmologies can seem not quite up-to-date now,
that the new hypothesis about Pontic Aryans is being strongly defended.
So one should be careful with Abaev, who is in fact the largest
specialist in Iranian (and especially Ossetic).

Cyril Babaev