Re: "Satem" Law

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:
> (citing Gola'b):
> > "everything seems to indicate that after the
> > final dissolution
> > of the PIE linguistic community, which took place
> > most probably
> > between 3000-2500 B.C., and after a transitional
> > period of Balto-
> > Slavic "community", the linguistic ancestors of the
> > Slavs got
> > separated from the Balts and became an autonomous
> > ethno-linguistic
> > entity sometime about or just after the year 1000
> > B.C."
>
> ******GK: Is he a bit more specific about this
> "everything"? Perhaps there are linguistic data to
> back up this claim of "about or just after the year
> 1000 BC". I don't know of any archaeological evidence
> (let alone historical) which does.******
> >

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The quote above is from Golab's summary; he's much vaguer in the
main text. His archaeology is incidental and secondary and I have
no idea how up-to-date.
He does make what seems to me a interesting point by extensive
comparison of basic agricultural terms in Baltic and Slavic, finding
common archaisms and deviant neologisms, suggesting "ethno-
linguistic contacts between the Balts and Slavs ... ceased to
exist in the very remote past, at the stage of very primitive
agriculture."
This is just a book I have on my shelf that I thought had some
pertinent points. I'm barely competent to read it, let alone
summarize it, so I think I'll drop from the thread now.
Dan