Crimean Gothic

I'm just back from a holiday, so sorry for my late reply:

John Cowan wrote on 7 sept:

>Everything that is known to be known about Crimean Gothic
>can be found in the masterly summary by David Salo (of Tolkien
>linguistics) at
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gothic-l/message/427
>
Thank you for the information! Saves me the effort of looking
trough the entire archive.

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From:    "Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...>
Subject: Re: slit fricative

>I don't know why they died out  in our world either, but I do know that the
>area was  subject to intense geopolitical conflict in at the time between the Ottoman
>Empire and Russia.   You might say something like:  the last speakers were not,
>afterall, massacred by the Tsar's troops in the Russo-Turkish war of 1686, that they
>were smart enough to see where the wind was blowing, and that they decided collectively
>to  work in the employ of the Tsar's service locally.  As an ally of the tsars and a
>counterweight to the Tatars who also lived in the Crimea, this would give them the
>geopolitical advantage and would at least guarantee them a modicum of protection
>from ethnic cleansing.
I'll make this part of the conculture.
Thanks all for the help.
I'll show something as soon as I have something to show.

Rob