Re: CHAT: Grozny (was: Re: Support/Oppression of Conlanging)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 20, 2002, 19:55 |
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Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> Just today, I found "Avar" given as an alternative name of "Daghestani" in
> _An Introduction to the Languages of the World_, and thought I'd ask the
> list if there's any connection between these Avars and those who dominated
> the Balkans for part of the early Middle Ages. Does Pavel or anyone else
> know?
No, there isn't. In Russian one group is the Avary, the other the Avartsy,
but I forget which is which.
ObConculture: In the Piat universe, the Avars (the Balkan kind) still
survive in Pannonia as part of the Triune Kingdom of Scythia-Pannonia-
Transbalkania.
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