From: fortuna11111
Message: 24285
Date: 2003-07-08
> (As for the insistence of those who've put these on display inTurkic languages are not IE?
> the web that the inscriptions or some of them are of an IE
> kind: I'd ask myself, under which circumstances would
> Protobulgar chieftains have gotten rid of the Turkic language
> in favor of some IE language or another spoken by their under-
> lings? Taking into consideration that no source tells us
> Protobulgars were Slavs or Alans.)