On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:50:10 -0000, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>--- 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.

Of course. But I had decided that Sarmatian/Alanian doesn't count. I don't
think we can prove that Scythian and Sarmatian were linguistically (almost) the
same, although it's likely.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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