Re: [tied] Pontic Indo-Aryans

Unfortunately, I don't know Trubachev's study first hand, but there is a convenient summary at Cyril Babaev's website.

http://tied.narod.ru/archive/article17.html

Gotta run now, but I'll post my comments later.

Regards,

Piotr

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While I share your skepticism about the presence of a decipherable script in the Steppes/Ukraine that reads IA/Sanskrit (for different reasons!), I would certainly appreciate references that evaluate/critique the often heard claims (I still have not read any thing in print) that IA languages/words are attested in the Pontic Steppes/Ukraine before 1000 BCE. Apparently, a lot of these claims are in Russian works or in other languages that I cannot read and as an instance I cite the following reference below (I will appreciate of some list member can present a critique of such works). Author Name: Trubachev, O. N. (Oleg Nikolaevich) Main Title: Indoarica v Severnom Prichernomor1e : rekonstruktsiia reliktov iazyka : etimologicheskii slovar1 / O.N. Trubachev. Published/Created: Moskva : Nauka, 1999. Description: 318, [1] p. : maps ; 23 cm. ISBN: 5020116750 Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-[319]). Subjects: Indo-Aryan languages--Ukraine--Black Sea Lowland. Black Sea Lowland (Ukraine)--Languages--Etymology. LC Classification: PK179 .T78 1999 Other System No.: (DLC) 99235151 CALL NUMBER: PK179 .T78 1999 I do not know precisely what dates are referred to in the book above but admittedly any attestation of IA words in Ukraine in ancient times is nothing short of a big scandal.