From: mkelkar2003
Message: 53632
Date: 2008-02-18
>http://www.kotikielenseura.fi/virittaja/hakemistot/jutut/kallio1_2006.html
> 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:
>
>
>Scott,
> 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
>