Re: [tied] The Cimmerians

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18749
Date: 2003-02-12

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Subject: [tied] The Cimmerians


> Do we know anything at all about the language of the Cimmerians? Many thanks.

Hardly anything at all. No linguistic material has survived apart from just a few (probably garbled) personal names that sound vaguely Iranian. That could be a local fashion, however, rather than proof that the Cimmerians were Iranian-speaking.

Piotr