From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 5967
Date: 2001-02-08
----- Original Message -----From: S.Tarasovas@...Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:00 AMSubject: [tied] Re: Language - Area - Routes--- In cybalist@......, tgpedersen@...... wrote:
Given the whole picture of the language who would you
> assume these people traded with?
>
Merchants from Gotland are mentioned regularly, as well as Finno-
Ugric people lived around Pskov/Novgorod district. I'll give a more
precise answer in a day - I have to re-check the inscriptions
collection to detect characteristic borrowings etc.
As for other language parameters (phonetics, grammar etc), I'm not
sure I am able to use it to address this issue - I'm not sure about
methodology.
Sergei