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About seventy years ago, Germany (in particular Cold War western Germany) had to make home for some 12-13 million refugees. Granted, as we all know, Germany started World War II, but the decision to effectively move Poland westwards on the map and to displace millions of people was basically...

Actually, here you both right and wrong: there are Greek loanwords in Slavic, but they mostly came from medieval Greek into Old Church Slavic, and not into Proto-Slavic. In contrast, Albanian contact with Greek was much earlier (for example the Albanian word for apple, "mollë", is borrowed from...

Personally I'm very sceptical of Ray Kurzweil's predictions, especially the notion "Humanity will be obsolete". I'm not convinced that "true" AI (especially the malevolent type that Hollywood wants to sell us every now and then) is even viable, at least with current technologies. In my opinion...

This might deserve a separate thread, but yes, Gallaecian is known mainly from short inscriptions and names from the Roman period, all written in the Latin alphabet. Before that, they were illiterate (unlike the Celtiberians to the east).

I won't disagree with that analysis. Like I said, "if we use Linear B as a template for reading Linear A". ;-) But with regard for the Cherokee script, I would like to point out that Sequoyah's Cherokee script was developed explicitly with having the phonetics of the Cherokee language in mind...

The article does not provide the phonological values of the Phaistos symbols, it does not provide a transliterated rendering of the supposed "proto-kartvelic" text, it only provides an English translation. That should give you pause.

I largely agree with the points that RobertColumbia brought up above (especially the lack of methodology and the dubious affiliation). In addition to that, Linear B (if its to be used as a template for reading Linear A) is quite unsuitable for writing a Kartvelic language (or Mycenaean Greek...

What makes you think "wheel" is supposed to be of Indo-Iranic origin? Its clearly from PIE, and its native Germanic, modified by Grimm's Law (*kw > *hw). It is a direct cognate with Greek "kyklos" (κυκλος) and Hindi "chakra". If you disregard English, you also have German "Rad", which is a...

In my opinion, it is entirely wishful thinking on his end. And I think so because he was wrong in 1991, he was even more wrong in 2009, why should this trend change? The two quarreling European countries par excellence of the first half of the 20th century, France and Germany are both in the EU...

Please. You shouldn't take Friedman serious. The guy is about as credible as the late Tom Clancy, with the difference Clancy actually explicitly wrote fiction and called it fiction. :laughing: I honestly do not know how Friedman makes his money, because he's notoriously bad at predicting the...

I must say, the situation is somewhat ambiguous there: unlike, say, the word for "wheel" or "wheeled vehicle" (which we do have for most IE branches) where the situation is very clear-cut, the terminology for bronze or copper (or more vaguely, "metal") is a lot less decisive: - The root *H2eyos...

I'm inclined to agree with Maciamo, even though I'm dismissive of the Paleolithic Continuity Theory because it has this underlying assumption of extreme language immobility, and despite the fact that Alinei states otherwise, the concept always struck me as rather Eurocentric, ignoring Anatolian...

The suffix "-antia" is also found in a famous Celtiberian city, Numantia. Would you say that there were Slavs in pre-Roman Iberia, too? Also, I think you're misquoting Antonio Sciarretta there, because nowhere does he say that the name "Celamantia" is Slavic, he merely points out that there's...

Wether you like it or not, Illyria is geographically part of the Balkans, the western Balkans, more accurately. You actually said that yourself (to quote you, on page 1 of this thread): I also pinpoint you to your own assertation that the Phrygians were Slavs (page 2):

I might point out, and no offense to you, I wasn't the one who adamantly denied that we actually have linguistic data from the Roman period (implying "the Slavs were hiding in blind sight from the Roman Empire"), until said person went forth and posted a list of toponyms from the Roman Balkans...

That map shows the Roman empire around the time of its greatest extend, under emperor Trajan, not under Constantine. I have included it to visualize the scope from which we have data. And in the case that you didn't know until now, there actually is an entire field of linguistics dedicated to...

The problem with that idea, and I think I'm repeating myself in this thread: If you claim "the migration period never happened", then you have to explain where Slavic languages were spoken before. The region you mentioned (Croatia) was part of the Roman Empire. We have plenty of linguistic...

I was talking about the Savaroi (Σαυαροι) also latinized as "Savari", not the "Stavani", and the name is found with Ptolemy, not Herodotus:

You've missed my point entirely. I brought in the Uralic languages because the Finno-Uralic word for "iron" (Finnish "rauta") was borrowed from a Balto-Slavic source. As I said, the Balto-Slavic word originally derives from the Indo-European word for "red", thereby disproving Milan's idea that...

That's actually a common Balto-Slavic term for "ore": you also have Lithuanian and Latvian "rūda", it was also borrowed into adjacent Uralic languages (Finnish "rauta"), but its ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root for the word "red" (including English "red", German "rot", Welsh "rhudd"...