From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61507
Date: 2008-11-10
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>> > But when did the Saami arrive in the north
>> Scandinavia?
>> > I suppose that they arrive in the beginning of the
>> era,
>> > from Finnland and originally from the Asia. The
>> arrival is
>> > late, so they cannot make any linguistic influence.
>> >
>> =======
>>
>> This is a very late datation.
>> In any case, it seems they arrived _before_ Germanic people
>> did.
>>
>> A.
>
> Actually we don't know where they arrived from. Their present language
> arrived c. 2,000 BCE?? or so. But we don't know where their substrate, and
> original, language was or where it was from.
>
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I would agree with that kind of datation (around -2000)
As regards the substrate(s) Of Saami,
as I has said before,
I believe a very significant number of words of Substrate1 are indo-european
with Satem+Ruki features.
Another Substrate2 may have some unclear connections with Basque.
I wrote and submitted an article about that.
We'll see if it goes thru the hurdles.
I have pointed at ba'rsha "mountain"
quite obviously from *bhergh.
A.