Re: Skiri Bastarnae

--- In cybalist@..., malmqvist52@... wrote:

>
> Hi Torsten,
> I'll come to the other question but first.
> --- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:
> > (apart from the obvious fact that the Getae spoke Thracian)?
> >
> What are those obvious facts that say that the Getae spoke Thracian?
> I thought that the only things we know about Thracian are place

names

> in Thracia where also other tribes like e g the Daci lived. And The
> Goths if we are to believe Jordanes.
> What kind of a language then is Thracian? IE or not? Hittite?

Greek?

> Germanic? Etruscan? Slavonic? What degrees of certainty are we
> dealing with?
>
> Best wishes
> Anders

"Thracian" as a name of languages is on the same (historical) level
as "Germanic". It might have been divided into dialects, but we don't
know. If some of the Thracian dialect had survived, we might now have
had a Thracian group of languages, just as we have a Germanic group
now, but they didn't.

Torsten