Re: [tied] Re: From words to dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or

On 2007-02-06 19:38, tgpedersen wrote:

> The Iranians didn't make a detour through the steppes. They lived on
> them. Don't let the present geographical term Iran fool you. Even
> today the Iranian languages Tadzhik and Pashtu are spoken outside of
> Iran.

Not to mention Kurdish, the Pamir languages and the two surviving NE
Iranian languages related to the Scytho-Sarmatian complex of the
Pontic-Caspian steppes: Yaghnobi (the descendant of Sogdian) and Ossetic
(the descendant of Alanic), still farther afield.

Piotr