From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56424
Date: 2008-04-02
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From: tgpedersen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:08 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Query Re: Post-Postscript on
Przeworsk
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
>
> As regards the maps in wikipedia,
> I'm quite perplexed by the alleged level
> of geographical precision.
The rest of us were quite perplexed at your placing Germanic somewhere
in Siberia. Welcome to linguistics.
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My idea that proto-Germanic is based on linguistic reasons :
- strong connections with Tokharian, Yenissei,
- lack of connections with Celtic
- Kartvelian loanwords
Your own theories about substrates are just explaining
there is no place to put Germanic on the map.
WEst scandinavia : hartia : r > l substrate
East scandinavia : pre-Saami : Baltic
North Germany and Netherlands : NWB = para Celtic.
Arnaud
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> Is it really possible to reach such a precise
> reconstruction of the positions of Germanic people ?
Yes. The writers of antiquity have been most helpful.
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You claim the amoebian shapes of places inhabited by Germanic Tribes
are described in writers of the Antiquity ?
I doubt that.
I thought It was a rough sketch
not a Google-earth-like precision.
Arnaud
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