From: Daniel J. Milton
Message: 50245
Date: 2007-10-09
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
I remember clearly what Aikio said a few years
> back. He most definitely spoke about 25% of Saami
> being substrate, and my understanding was that he said
> the Saami picked up Uralic from outsiders. Contact him
> and ask him to contribute. I remember him as one of
> the brightest people on the lists he was on. If I
> remembered wrongly, I have no problem with
> apologizing.
********
Aikio's 2004 paper "An essay on substrate studies and the origin of
the Saami" took a lot of searching for, but is available at
http://www.geocities.com/tjaaehkere/Aikio2004.pdf
(if someone has already posted the link on Cybalist, I missed it
somehow)
He doesn't say 25%, but he does give an impressively long list of
probable substrate words.
Dan