Re: IE & Uralic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> > So, Slavic was a kind of convergence?
>
> ****GK: With East Balts forming most of the ethnic
> substratum and assimilating Bastarnae much of the
> upper crust. There were similar processes in the later
> history of various "Slavic" groups as they
> incorporated other heterogeneities. Anyway it sounds
> plausible enough (like Normans+ Saxons etc.. for the
> mediaeval English, mutatis mutandis, et sim.)****

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iazyges

I didn't know the Iazyges were ethnically composite? Are there any
qualified guesses as to the identity of the serf class?


Torsten