From: juhavs
Message: 29528
Date: 2004-01-14
>It should be 3900 BCE, of course...
> Given the attested areal distribution of Uralic
> languages, all this transforms into the scholarly
> common opinion of Finnish comparative linguistists and
> archaeologists, namely, that already the Typical
> Combed Ware (or Combed Ware 2) population in Finland
> might have spoken a variety of Proto Fenno-Ugric from
> 4900 BCE onwards and that Proto-Finnic began to
> develop at the time of the Corded Ware intrusion.
>