Re: Language - Area - Routes

From: tgpedersen@...
Message: 5973
Date: 2001-02-08

--- In cybalist@..., S.Tarasovas@... wrote:
> --- 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

Ah, I was not precise enough.
Given the whole picture of the language, what *Slavic* people would
you assume these people traded with.

Torsten