From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 10592
Date: 2001-10-25
--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
*****GK: Herodotus and many others applied it to the whole complex of
ethna of which the "Royal Scythians" were but one component. The
majority were not nomads.****
I know. I'm talking of stereotypes here.
*****GK: Well if Slavic evolved from Balto-Slavic (or from some even
more ancient IE complex: BaltoSlavic-Scythian) it could very well
have had elements of this "Scythian" language, Iranic borrowings etc.
notwithstanding.*****
The source from which those loans were taken shows characteristic
_Iranian innovations_, i.e. features that developed after the
separation of Iranian from Indo-Aryan. Such a language is Iranian _by
definition_, since the probability of such a complex of traits
developing idependently outside Iranian is as close to zero as
matters. A language cannot have a Doppelgänger.
Piotr