From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60837
Date: 2008-10-12
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
>> I'd be grateful if you could scan it, maybe,
>> if this is not already done in your archives,
>
> Done.
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Thanks again.
Arnaud
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>> Pliny and Ptolemy have other peoples on the Baltic coast.
>> They came from further south, in Belorussia and the Ukraine.
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>> Like which peoples ?
> Veneti and Aestii.
>
>> What is the reason these other people could not be talking Baltic,
>> or something close to it ?
>
> Read the article, them let's discuss it.
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I have not thoroughly read it
but a first impression is that the author tries to spot Baltic on the map
__AFTER__ he has already put Germanic, Finnic and about everybody else in
place,
so that the result of that process is Baltic is reduced to a small dot on
the corner up right.
It's likely that after a thorough reading , I should seriously disagree with
most if not all the contents of this article.
The date framework is too late,
Germanic is not supposed to be here, in my point of view,
Finno-Volgaic was not there already,
Etc.
I think each premice in the article has to be examined independently.
For the time being, I see no reason why I should stop assuming that a branch
of Balto-Slavic settled in Eastern Scandinavia (Finland+Carelia) before
Finno-Sabme speakers started invading that area sometimes around -2 000 BC.
About 50 lexemata classified by Aikio as substratic are satem.
Mallory gives a map of Baltic Rivers within a triangle joining Warszawa,
Kiev and Moskva.
I see no reason to decree a northern limit to this Baltic hydronymic area.
Arnaud
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