From: altamix
Message: 12666
Date: 2002-03-13
This has nothing to do with Thraco-Getic "roots". Areal innovations emerge at different points within the Sprachbund and spread rather quickly, forming many historical layers that obscure the earlier stages; their present-day configuration tells us practically nothing about the state of affairs two millennia ago, when the ethnolinguistic map of the Balkans was quite different.