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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> So when do you think the Saami began speaking Uralic
> and the Finns moved into Finland?
> Saami, supposedly has 25% pre-Uralic substrate and I
> have no clue about any substrate in Finnish.
> I've always wondered about shared substrate among
> Germanic, Saami, Balto-Finnic and Baltic --but none of
> you will get up off your duffs and figure it out for
> me.

They always seem to point to the neighbor as the origin, eg. the 'ale'
word, which exists in Baltic Finnic, Baltic and Germanic, but it's not
derivable in any of them, AFAIK. The distribution would point to a
word of that area, but from what 'substrate' language?


Torsten