Re: CHAT: Scythes and Scythians (was: Re: CHAT: Re: Japanese English)
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 23, 2000, 23:53 |
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In a message dated 3/23/2000 12:24:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
artabanos@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU writes:
<< > A famous Swede from the 17th century, Georg Stiernhielm, thought
> that the Proto-language (Proto-World? :) was Noa's language. Scythian
> was, according to him, the language that had best preserved this
> Proto-language >>
That's amusing, especially since AFAIK there is almost no record of the
Scythian language-- perhaps a few scattered words in Greek sources. They may
or may not have been IE, Turkic, who knows?