--- In cybalist@..., "Davius Sanctex" <davius_sanctex@...> wrote:
> 1) What was the language of "Regnum Ponticum" of Mithridates IV?
As near as I have determined, the basal language of Cappadocia
Pontica was probably similar to or the same as Cappadocia; an
Anatolian language related to Lydian, Lycian, and groups in Cilicia,
Commagene, Pisidia, and Caria. The culture, including the language
and religion, seems to have been fairly heavily influenced by the
Achaemenid Persians just as was Armenia. Indeed, Mithridates' name
recalls the Zoroastrian god Mithra. Hellenization began after
Alexander, of course, but as the Macedonian rule was weak and short-
lived, Greek culture was assimilated more through diffusion from
contact with the Seleucids and the Greek ports of Sinope and Amisus
than through direct Greco-Macedonian rule.
> 2) What was the language of the "Alani"?
Iranian. They seem to have been a branch of the Sarmatians, though I
don't recall the details. The Ossets of the north Caucasus are
commonly recognized as their descendants.
> 2) Is Saka (khontanese) some form of Scythian?
Bascially, yes. Saka was the Persian name for them, whom they
referenced to their northeast. Some say it was probably a more
accurate appelation for all of them. As I recall, late survivors of
them fled into eastern Iran and Afghanistan as the Hephtalites
or "White Huns".
> 3) Did Sarmatians and Scythians speak the same language?
Dialects of the same language?
> 4) Are yazigians and sarmatians the same people?
We have a couple of experts who know about the fate of the Sarmatians
in eastern Europe.
> 5) What was the historical end of cimerii?
The ones wiped out by the Romans, with perhaps some surviving
remnants retreating northward to perhaps join the Aduatuci in Belgium
or the ones the Romans reported in Jutland?
> 4) Hasta q época sobrevivió el cimerio? que relación exite entre
esta lengua y el escita?
escita = Scythian? I think the consensus is that Cimmerian was a
Thracian language. The Scythians would have represented the first
intrusion of steppe Iranians into the Pontic region.