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

At 7:12:25 AM on Friday, June 4, 2004, 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?

As I understand the matter, most of those in Uralistics have
a low opinion of it, though Wiik, Künnap, et al. make up for
small numbers with vast (if repetitious) output. I
recommend Merlijn de Smit's article and bibliography at

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3093/voodoo.html

Brian