--- In cybalist@..., "Mirel 'Turambar' Palada" <mpalada@...> wrote:
> Scythian / Indo-Iranian
> (5-10th century)
The Scyths were forced out of the Pontic steppe by the Sarmatians in
II c. BC. As for Indo-Iranians in general, they had been nearly
completely eliminated by the Hunns and the Bulgars by the V c. AD.
Did you mean not absorbed wawes of Pontic East Iranians (or, more
generally, Indo-Iranians) formed sorta adstratum on the territory of
today's Romania? If so, why up to X c.?
It would be very interesting to acquaint oneself with some of these
loans.
Sergei