From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 70230
Date: 2012-10-21
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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>> An interesting place to look, which, I believe Torsten commented on
>> is Crimea, for the Sindos-Meotians (vel sim). They seem to have IE
>> vocabulary absent from Vedic. Their language also seem lambdic as
>> opposed to Vedic rhotcisms. The term Sindos, however, seems to me an
>> exonym, perhaps applied to them by peoples who identified them with
>> peoples of the Indus/Sindhos valley. Has anyone done any serious
>> indepth research on this group?
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> Cyril (Kirill) Babaev, founder of this List, once had an online article
> which also covered the topic of the so-called "Pontic Aryan" language(s) and
> the former assessments of this question by Kretschmer and Trubachov. It can
> be retrieved here:
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> http://web.archive.org/web/20060712182124/http://indoeuro.bizland.com/archive/article17.html
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> Sindes also is the name of a river (with persisting, pre-/non-Iranian s-)
> mentioned by Tacitus (Annales X.10); it divides the Dahae from the Arii, and
> thus refers to the Merw (Murghab) or Tedzhen river.
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> Regards,
> Francesco
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