Re: [tied] Indo-Europeans displaced Finno-Ugrics?

Hi,

 

I will come back to this issue later - when I return to my home computer - but I must say that nearly all Finnish scholars and specialists give this verdict to Wiik: no good!

 

Cheers, Juha Savolainen

 

Christopher Culver <christopher_culver@...> wrote:

I'm curious to know what the forum members' opinion might be about the
thesis in this essay:

http://www.lib.helsinki.fi/bff/399/wiik.html

If the Indo-Europeans replaced a wide community of Finno-Ugric
speakers in Northern Europe, one would expect to find at least some
Finno-Ugric loans in Germanic and perhaps Celtic. Does this kind of
evidence exist? What kind of reputation does this idea have in the
community of IE scholars?

Christopher Culver