Re: [tied] Re: The Advantages of IE

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 13383
Date: 2002-04-20

True. And Lappish wasn't yet spoken in Lapland in PIE times. Maybe the biological ancestors of the Saami lived in Northern Europe at the time, but their Finno-Ugric _language_ must have been brought much more recently from some other place, or there would not be so many Iranian loans in it. Note also that the putative non-IE substrate in Germanic is _not_ Finno-Ugric.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Gwinn
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The Advantages of IE

>Later, the spread of
>PIE oblitersted most of the old European language map of Semitoid and
>Tyrrhenian and Basque and Pictish and Lappish and Iberian and
>Ivernian etc.

Umm...Pictish and Ivernian were NOT pre-PIE languages - they were both fully
Indo European Celtic dialects that existed into the historical period.

- Chris Gwinn