Re: From fact to fiction

--- In cybalist@..., "tarasovass" <tarasovass@...> wrote:

>
> The dictionary you cite is a piece of science fiction. As is
> commonly known, _no_ Yatvingian (aka Sudovian aka Dainavian)
> texts have been discovered yet, and even the status of the
> "Yatvingian language" is still discussed (an Old Prussian
> dialect? a separate West (aka periferal) Baltic language?
> some special language, "transitional" between Baltic and
> Slavic languages?).

Thank you, and how disturbing! Nowhere on the site can I find
a disclaimer. I guess this is another one to add to the list
of looney sites. You know they say they're a member of the I.E.
database.

> Some _very_ tentative and rather unreliable guesses on the
> (mostly morphophonological) structure of the language which
> have been made by now are based mostly on the material provided
> by some southern Lithunian dialects, presumably influenced by
> Yatvingian, and on the toponymy ...

So then I guess that this "dictionary" is someone's attempted
reconstruction of Yatvingian. It also says at the site "Sudovian
is the language of immense forests, long rivers, and the friendly
people of Sûdavâ. It is living. It is, here." I was all ready
to pack and book my flight! :-(

David