Re: Bronze Age dialect

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Smith"
<mytoyneighborhood@...> wrote:

> If you had to bet your life on what language was spoken by the N
> European Bronze Age Mound People in Denmark, what would you guess?
> What about if you had to bet your life on the languages spoken in
> what is now Germany and Scandinavia c. 1600 B.C.?
>

I'd say something related to Prussian, it's the nearest language
undisturbed since then, AfaIk. On Scandinavia: River names on both
sides of Baltic match up, on the Scandinavian side partly Grimm-
shifted.

Except for
Southern Germany: Celtic.
Both sides of Middle Rhine: Some Celtic-oid language.
Nordwestblock: Nordwestblock or Pre-IE *ur-/*ar- language (Kuhn)

Torsten