--- alex <
alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> >
> > GK: Also, would not the Bessi be considered
> > Thracian rather than Dacian?
> >>
> >> George
>
> It seems you are a fellowers of Georgiev; Strabo
> means Thracians and Dacians
> have been speakers of the same language. I prefer to
> believe Strabo and not
> Georgiev:-))
*****GK: I'm not entirely a "follower of Georgiev".
But he does make some good points about the
differences between Dacians and Thracians. I also
accept the Stabo position, and consider the
relationship between Dacians and Thracians to be
analogous to that between, say, Poles and Ukrainians,
or Castilians and Italians, or Germans and Danes (get
my drift?) i.e. members of the same larger family, but
different nevertheless. And on that assumption I also
accept the existence of a now vanished "Thrakoid"
speech east of the Tyregetae (all that remains of this
are some toponyms and hydronyms), that of the
"Scythians" west of the Dnipro, with the
Iranic-speaking Scythian "Basilei" or "Paralata"
mostly residing east of the Dnipro in Herodotus'
time.******
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