> > For our ends, where are substrate Finns in Pripiat' region?
>
> 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?
Extinct Uralic languages, from
Gyula Décsy
The Uralic Protolanguage:
home area to what latest
Kammass Sayan-Mountain area Turkicized 18th-20th centuries
Koibal West Sayan/Abakanin Turkicized 18th century
Karagas Upper Course of Yenisei Turkicized 18th century
Taigi Upper Course of Yenisei Turkicized 18th century
Khakas East Alatau, Abakan Turkicized 17th-18th century
Motor Sayan Turkicized 18th century
Tuva Tuva ASSR Turkicized 18th century
Merja Nero/Pleshchevejo Lake Russified 13th century
Muroma Oka-Volga confluence Russified 13th century
Meschchera Oka Russified 14th century
Valdai-Finns Valdai-Novgorod Russified 7th-10th century
Ryazan-Pskov Between Ryazan/Pskov Russified 10th-l lth century
Vots Ingermanland Russified 16th-20th century
Livonian North of Dvina/Riga Latvianized 13th-18th century
Torsten