Re: Origin of Proto-Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "A." <xthanex@> wrote:
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> > Greetings all,
> >
> > I've been trying to gather all that I can about the origin of Proto-
> > Germanic, and am hoping someone may be able to shed some light on the
> > questions below.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Aydan
> >
>
> Please check this out also.
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> Fig 12 (p. 22) and section 6 (p. 22) of the link below
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> <http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/Papers/81.2nakhleh.pdf>
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> and section 7.7 (p. 52) of the following study.
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> http://www.cs.rice.edu/~nakhleh/CPHL/RWT02.pdf
>

The point of both articles, especially the last one, seems to
mesh nicely with the way I've proposed Germanic originated:
starting with the Sciri/Bastarnae, in contact with Balto-Slavic
and Indo-Iranian, moving through Przeworsk II to Thuringia,
picking up substrate material from Italo-Celtic (according
to Hans Kuhn, based on loanwords, first Italic, then Celtic).
The only assumption I'd have to make is that the contact
with Italic would be with 'para-Italic' groups that the
Italic-speakers left behind in their old home when they left
for Italy.


Torsten