--- In nostratic@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:28:07 -0000, "ardfilidh" <ardfilidh@...>

wrote:

> >so what about scythian. is there any surviving written scythian?
>
> No.

It depends what you mean by Scythian. Does very late Sarmatian
count? There is the 10th-12th century Zelenchuk inscription,
unreliably described in
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/7675/chapt6.html and much more
reliably discussed in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/7070 with much
subsequent related discussion also on that list. And, of course,
Ossetian still survives.

Richard.