Re: Slavs

Good question. They would have been to the N & E, on
the other side of the Balts, I suppose, perhaps also
along the Baltic coast a ways to the west, but how far
west did the Livonians and like groups orginally live?
Also if we're postulating a Uralic substrate for
Slavic, then it must have been even greater for
Baltic. What can you tell us about that? I've read
that Latvian has Fennic influence, which makes sense,
but Lithuanian and Prussian?


--- ualarauans <ualarauans@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> > Is this the 'slavischer Sumpfmensch' etc idea? I
> don't think you can
> > blame anyone for hiding out to avoid being
> annihilated. The Pripyat
> > marshes served the same purpose in WWII, afaIk.
> Besides, the area is
> > so relatively small that whichever refugee hid
> there (and for a long
> > time at that) would do well to learn the local
> language.
>
> That makes sense. But as I said I am not qualified
> to debate Slavic
> urheimat. I know there are still theories and a lot
> of scholarly
> fighting. For our ends, where are substrate Finns in
> Pripiat' region?
>
> Ualarauans
>
>

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