Re: Post-Postscript on Przeworsk

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

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>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > > GK: What was the difference between "the Germanic
> > > language family" and "Para-Germanic"?
> >
> > I should have written 'some para-Germanic language' since
> > 'para-Germanic' just means "contemporaneous with, closely
> > related to, but not identical to, Proto-Germanic"
> >
> > > In this case between the Lugian/Vandilic and Gothic groups?
> > > What was the reason for the difference?****
> >
> > None of these are Przeworsk, right?
>
> ****GK: The Lugian/Vandilic group was. From the start
> and to the end of Przeworsk. The saga of the Vandals...****

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/49777
Connection to the Limfjord, Cimbri, Teutones etc.

> > The reason why
> > Przeworsk/Proto-Germanic and the various
> > para-Germanic languages were
> > different was that they had been separated for some
> > time.
>
> ****GK: When did this "separation" occur?

A few centuries BCE.

> You mean there was a time when Proto/Germanic and Para-Germanic
> were united?

That's what the names mean. I thought you got it by now.

> Where?****

In Jastorf.

> > > ****GK: Fine. Which component was favoured among the 4
> > > Latenized cultures mentioned above and why?
> >
> > I have no idea. To be solved.
>
> ****GK: It's already been solved. Long ago(:=)))
> Jastorf was Germanic, so were other areas of the north
> (such as Bornholm etc...).****

I thought we were discussing linguistics, of which you have professed
ignorance?

> > > Who played the role of the British and of the Romans within
> > > these four combinations?
> >
> > I have no idea. To be solved.
>
> ****GK: See above.****

See above.

> > > What was it about the "Przeworsk"
> > > combination which resulted in the "Germanic language
> > > family"
> >
> > It expanded fast over a large area. And it developed
> > a written language, probably a literature too.
>
>
> ****GK: Przeworsk did not annihilate the cultures of
> Western Germania when it mingled with them. What's
> your evidence that it is the carriers of Przeworsk who
> developed a written language and literature? The
> Vandals didn't.****

We know that the leader of the Przeworsk expansion at the time
developed it personally. Don't you read your sources?


Torsten