Re: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

----- Original Message -----

From: Rick McCallister

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:16 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

Actually Scandinvia & W Baltic: Sweden, Denmark, Lower
Saxony, Pomorze --Jastorf, right?
Germanic began to split up sometime around 500 BC,
right?
And it spread out from there, right?
In (continental) Scandinavia, the previous inhabitants
spoke Uralic, namely Saami (and Finnish in Finland),
right?

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A.F

Germanic reached Scandinavia BEFORE (Western) Uralic.

And I think Germanic split much earlier than 500 BC,

English and German were different languages as early as - 2500,

if you recalibrate glottochronology erosion rate, to avoid having French and Italian split as late as in the XV century.

(obviously absurd : Standard erosion rate is too fast

It has to be slowed down and the result is that language splits are pushed into the past)

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And who knows what they spoke in Denmark and Pomorze,
right?
Maybe "Folkish"?, maybe "Apple language", who knows,
right?

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@... com> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@ ...> wrote:
> >
> > No one says that Scandinavia was the original
> homeland
> > of Germanic --just that it was centered there and
> the
> > NW Baltic
>
> Why 'centered' there? Where exactly is the 'NW
> Baltic'?
>
> > c. 500 BCE.
>
> Why 500 BCE?
>
>
> > Before that, well, probably present Saxony and
> Poland.
> > Regarding Uralic lexicon --look at Scandinavia and
> the
> > N. Baltic, who else besides Germanics live there?
>
> Is this 'N. Baltic' = your previous 'NW Baltic', and
> if not, where is it?
>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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