From: george knysh
Message: 59877
Date: 2008-08-27
--- On Wed, 8/27/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
I believe
Proto-Germanic was Przeworsk-talk, which became the common language of
Ariovistus'/ Harjagist' s army,
****GK: Which Germanic tribe in Ariovistus' army (from those listed in Caesar) was originally "Przeworsk" as to material culture?****
and that all other languages of the
later Germania were para-Germanic, at the most, and died out.
****GK: On what do you base the continuing importance of "Przeworsk-talk" in Germania after the collapse of Ariovistus in 58 BCE?****
> Contrast this with India, where strictly nobody and no
> single line in the whole of Indic literature refers to any
> proto-Indo-Aryan immigration, as Elphinstone already observed in
> the 1840s and as has only been confirmed since.
Food for thought.
****GK: Snorri might even turn Torsten into an OIT believer? (:=))? BTW Tacitus believed the German(ic)s to be autochtons. Presumably there was nothing about migrations in their old songs (ditto earlier re Scythians, and many others. So the Elphinstone point is hardly "food for thought").****
Torsten