Re: Indo Aryan and Finno-Ugric, was Re: [tied] *kW- "?"

Juha:

> The most important scholar in this context is
> undoubtedly Jorma Koivulehto. Among his many
> contributions on the topic of contacts of Uralic and
> Indo-European speakers one relatively easily (?)
> accessible article in English is “The Earliest
> Contacts between IE and Uralic Speakers in the Light
> of Lexical Loans” in Christian Carpelan, Asko
> Parpola and Petteri Koskikallio (eds.): “Early
> contacts between Uralic and Indo-European:
> Linguistic and archaeological considerations”.
> (Mémoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 242.)
> Helsinki: Finno-Ugrian Society, 2001.

Well, there ya go, Gendler. But be sure to seperate
the accepted view of Indo-Iranian interacting with
Finno-Ugric versus the hypothetical view that IE
and Uralic themselves interacted (ie: before around
4000 BCE). The latter theory is harder to pin down
and to prove with certainty, I think.


= gLeN


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