Re: Re[2]: [tied] Re: Uralic Continuity Theory (was: Meaning of Arya

I'm curious about how so many Gmc loanwords entered
before the Swedish invasion of Finland. Was Finland or
part of Finland populated by Gmc speakers before
Finnish speakers arrived? I know, it sounds far out,
but I'm curious.


--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> At 8:47:58 PM on Sunday, February 17, 2008, Rick
> McCallister wrote:
>
> > His article has evidently been taken down. What is
> the
> > current estimate?
>
> I'm looking at it right now. Did you perhaps omit
> the .html
> at the end of the URL:
>
>

http://www.kotikielenseura.fi/virittaja/hakemistot/jutut/kallio1_2006.html

>
> The key paragraph:
>
> However, loanword studies contradict the dating of
> Proto-Uralic to 4000 BC. Two reasons are given for
> this.
> First, Proto-Indo-Iranian loanwords with a wide
> distribution in the Finno-Ugrian languages suggest
> that
> the branches of Finno-Ugrian had not yet
> linguistically
> diverged from one another in the latter half of
> the third
> millennium BC, when Proto-Indo-Iranian was most
> likely
> spoken. Second, Northwest Germanic loanwords in
> Finnic and
> Sámic similarly suggest that Finnic and Sámic were
> still
> two dialects of the same Proto-Finno-Sámic
> language as
> late as the latter half of the first millennium
> BC, when
> Northwest Germanic most likely came into being.
>
> Brian
>
>
>

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