Re: Finnic substrate in Slavic?!

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

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> --- On Fri, 3/12/10, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> There's another argument: these features are unique to Balto-Slavic
> within IE and to Baltic Finnic within Uralic (IIRC). On the basis
> of that, you'd assign it a common substrate.
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> *****GK: Common to BS and BF? Hence the title of the thread should
> be changed to "X substrate in Finnic and Slavic?!" ?****

I keep on vacillating between those two options (which, typically, I've opted for since no one else does). From the perspective of your own model of the genesis of the Slavic language family, perhaps you should ask yourself whether some of the splinter groups you see as having made up the Kiev culture were originally Finnic-speaking?


Torsten