Slavic homeland and ethnogenesis
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Some legend exist that Gordium, got the name from Gordias Phyrgian king,they were prior in the Balkans called according to Herodot Bryges = Breg (hill, slope, mountain) in Slavic,Gordium,Gordias can be explained like Gord=Proud,Gordium=Grad(city) etc Slavic,but they were perhaps some mix of couple languages,Balto-Slavic was elsewhere trough Thracian and various other languages it is bias to say otherwise,which traveling Slavs we are talking about here,because some group of people was labeled as Slavs by outsiders in the 6th century and many others adopt the same name doesn't explain anything if we talk about languages here.Phrygian and Slavic are both Indo-European, and Satem languages? Beyond that, I don't see them as particularly close, to be honest.
The name "Gordion" is obviously unrelated. The reason is simple, because the chronology would make it impossible. As I discussed earlier, we have a good idea when the sound shift *a > *o occured in Proto-Slavic. As I said, Latin loanwords and placenames are subject to it, this means that the sound shift occured some time during the Migration Period. Before that, it would have been *gard in Proto-Slavic, which is closer to the Germanic form (because, unsurprisingly, it was borrowed from there). The city of Gordion existed over 1000 years earlier. So unless you posit that the ancient Gordion was named by time-travelling Slavs from the middle ages, this is pretty impossible.
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In Baltic languages there are following words:
Zārds - Latvian (used mostly as "siena zārds", rickstand)
Žardas - Lithuanian (Stockyard)
From which also metathesis:
Dārzs - garden (Latvian), daržas Lithuanian.
Edit: those seem to be archaic words in Baltic languages (entered from PIE, before Satem). They follow same pattern (Lithuanian ž, Latvian z), as for example Zoss, Žasis (goose), etc.
Edit: what I wanted to say is that z sound instead of g was more likely for Balto-Slavic in gard. Just like Gold/zoloto/zelts.
Zārds - Latvian (used mostly as "siena zārds", rickstand)
Žardas - Lithuanian (Stockyard)
From which also metathesis:
Dārzs - garden (Latvian), daržas Lithuanian.
Edit: those seem to be archaic words in Baltic languages (entered from PIE, before Satem). They follow same pattern (Lithuanian ž, Latvian z), as for example Zoss, Žasis (goose), etc.
Edit: what I wanted to say is that z sound instead of g was more likely for Balto-Slavic in gard. Just like Gold/zoloto/zelts.
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ancient Egyptians believed Phrygian as the oldest language of the world,
anyway
Mycenean is another story,
if we follow the arsenic bronze road from steppe to Balkans, Cotofeni (Thracian) is older than Vatin/Vucocar(Mycenean)
the complex with Ancient Greek is that fits with many, and is also away
from the same many,anyway Mycenean and Homerick are a degree before archaic Greek,
so by following the North path, Mycenean is next
to Latin, possible between Thracian and LatinoCeltic,by following the East path, Homerick is next
to aryan a PIE called Greco-Aryan,Archaic Greek or Dorian as Georgiev describes are a continental language dialect protospoken next to Brygian (Balkans) and seems to be connected with Armenian,
it is not easy to put Greek to a greater family, cause its a family of dialects languages by its own,
and back to Thracian,
if Thracian is the Cotofeni stop from Yamnaa then surely must be oldest than Mycenean and Celtic
if Thracian enters from East then surely is after Hettit and maybe younger
anyway Ossa as waterfall/river
Ossariates, mt Ossa, Edessa
to make my self more clear,
the IE of Yamnaa if we follow that theory, could not be satem, neither centum
as Hettit is neither satem neither centum.
but by what see later
word is Gold
Thracian = Saldas
in a centum form could be galdas- Gold
in Slavic is Zlot Zaltan,
but in Greek is χρυσος chrusos
in Latin is Oro
next
the tower, the hill, the acropolis
Thracian Bria
German Burg
PoltoBria, town on the mountain, fortress on the mountain
Baltic polje = fence,
Greek polis = town
now after that what you believe, could Thracian sprunk from Slavic or Germanic?
or the oposite? or at least from the same group?
on the other hand
Thracian Muca = tribe/clan bonded by blood males
Scottish Mac = tribe clan
Iranian muca = son
very interesting don't you think?
loan? or a word that travel continents and languages from Iran to British islands Celtic?
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The word Bryg could also be explained by the word Brigade. A bunch of people, soldiers.
But the other name of Phrygians the Mushki could be related to the Proto-Slavic *mǫžь (also *mǫžьščina) which means Man. The -ki there could be a suffix.
Adding Yetos examples
Thracian Muca = tribe/clan bonded by blood males
Scottish Mac = tribe clan
Iranian muca = son
A Latin word mas also? from there derives macho.?
We get an amazing picture
The word Bryg could also be explained by the word Brigade. A bunch of people, soldiers.
brigade (n.)
"subdivision of an army," 1630s, from French brigade "body of soldiers" (14c.), from Italian brigata "troop, crowd, gang," from brigare "brawl, fight," from briga "strife, quarrel," perhaps of Celtic (compare Gaelic brigh, Welsh bri "power") or Germanic origin.
But the other name of Phrygians the Mushki could be related to the Proto-Slavic *mǫžь (also *mǫžьščina) which means Man. The -ki there could be a suffix.
Adding Yetos examples
Thracian Muca = tribe/clan bonded by blood males
Scottish Mac = tribe clan
Iranian muca = son
A Latin word mas also? from there derives macho.?
We get an amazing picture
I just gave proposal it has similar explanation Bryges in Germanic Berg (Mountain), Serbian breg (hill, slope, mountain)Milan
The word Bryg could also be explained by the word Brigade. A bunch of people, soldiers.
But the other name of Phrygians the Mushki could be related to the Proto-Slavic *mǫžь (also *mǫžьščina) which means Man. The -ki there could be a suffix.
Adding Yetos examples
Thracian Muca = tribe/clan bonded by blood males
Scottish Mac = tribe clan
Iranian muca = son
A Latin word mas also? from there derives macho.?
We get an amazing picture
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Your examples are interesting. You are certainly on something.
But I don't know well other PaleoBalcanic languages so I can't say my opinion. But for the Phrygian I clearly see that it is closer to Greek, Celto-Italic (German?) and Balto-Slavic.
For the German Burg I can add also the Armenian Burgn/Burgən (tower, piramid)
Urartians most probably borrowed this word from Armenian, the Urartian form is Burgana (the same meaning). So I agree here that this word could come from West.
Your examples are interesting. You are certainly on something.
But I don't know well other PaleoBalcanic languages so I can't say my opinion. But for the Phrygian I clearly see that it is closer to Greek, Celto-Italic (German?) and Balto-Slavic.
For the German Burg I can add also the Armenian Burgn/Burgən (tower, piramid)
Urartians most probably borrowed this word from Armenian, the Urartian form is Burgana (the same meaning). So I agree here that this word could come from West.
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You have to understand the chronology of sound shifts. In Proto-Balto-Slavic PIE *o merged to *a. Later on, Proto-Slavic did the reverse by shifting Proto-Balto-Slavic *a to *o. In contrast, the *a in modern Slavic derives from earlier Balto-Slavic long *ā. And as I said, the *a > *o sound shift in Balto-Slavic happened during the Migration Period. Latin loanwords, as I mentioned, are subject to the latter sound change. "asellus" (donkey) > "osel", "acetum" (vinegar) > "otset". The same applies to /a/ found in Germanic loanwords (in contrast, the Germanic *ō was generally rendered as *ū into Proto-Slavic ("u" in modern Slavic), whence *bōk- 'beech' yielded Slavic *buk). I might add that, to my knowledge, there's no evidence really old language contact between speakers of Proto-Slavic and Greek, which - for example - very much exists for Albanian with Greek (e.g. "mēlo" or "μηλο" > "mollë"). Now Thrace was a region that was thoroughly hellenized already from fairly early, if Proto-Slavic speakers were really present there, we should see an ancient stratum of Greek loanwords.
The same definitely did not happen in Phrygian or Thracian, as these languages preserved Proto-Indo-European /a/ and /o/ as distinct vowels. This is why neither Phrygian nor Thracian, despite being Satem languages, were supposedly close related with Balto-Slavic.
What I would like to add is that there can be no doubt is that during the classical Antiquity, the speakers of Proto-Slavic would have to be located outside of the Roman Empire. If there was, we should see place names, personal names, etc. from the Roman period in Roman sources. We don't, and Curta for one should have been aware of this, which is why his proposal is so absurd, and why its more sensible to place the Proto-Slavic homeland outside of the Roman Empire (which takes us back to Chernoles or Milograd as the most likely choices).
You explained the Slavic ethnogenesis,Bravo :cool-v: even Jirecek didn't knew this.
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So far you didn't manage to convince even one person here with your romantic idea. Ridiculing is not going to help you either.You explained the Slavic ethnogenesis,Bravo :cool-v: even Jirecek didn't knew this.
To convince in which idea,i had no such intentions neither i riducule anyone i asked question,after all better to have any idea then talking the same for the last 2 centuries although that was never the solution.
etrified: don't know why someone should be upset about it.Zdzisław Skork Polish archeologist writes:
At the time of the Roman Empire, that is, until the mid 5th century, nobody had heard of them. When the Western Empire suddenly collapsed under the siege of German barbarians, they emerged from the dark abyss of Balkan provinces.The Byzantines describe them as people with red hair, but at times also black, as well as a color very similar to the ripe crops of June. A rather tall, but also skinny people, with an audacious gaze.These people wanted to survive in a situation of total threat, and they found a way for this. Survivors typical of a time when nothing was certain and everything was potentially a threat to life,Florin archeologist South-East Europe in research on ancient Slavs, states they are a product of Byzantine authors,and the product of the fortification of Danube limes and the inflation within the empire, who blended all tribes attacking their provinces into one. According to Florin, it was impossible for the Byzantines to study these societies in more detail, and they invented one word Sclavenes.Whoever this Sklabenoi people might be,attacking the empire from the lower Danube region and Pannonia,should be left aside especialy to South-East European historians,archeologists,to find out who were they and why they appeared.
At the time of the Roman Empire, that is, until the mid 5th century, nobody had heard of them. When the Western Empire suddenly collapsed under the siege of German barbarians, they emerged from the dark abyss of Balkan provinces.The Byzantines describe them as people with red hair, but at times also black, as well as a color very similar to the ripe crops of June. A rather tall, but also skinny people, with an audacious gaze.These people wanted to survive in a situation of total threat, and they found a way for this. Survivors typical of a time when nothing was certain and everything was potentially a threat to life,Florin archeologist South-East Europe in research on ancient Slavs, states they are a product of Byzantine authors,and the product of the fortification of Danube limes and the inflation within the empire, who blended all tribes attacking their provinces into one. According to Florin, it was impossible for the Byzantines to study these societies in more detail, and they invented one word Sclavenes.Whoever this Sklabenoi people might be,attacking the empire from the lower Danube region and Pannonia,should be left aside especialy to South-East European historians,archeologists,to find out who were they and why they appeared.
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You know, the problem I do have with that view is basically a logical fallacy: by pointing out the term "Sklavenoi" was invented by the Byzantines, you're ignoring the actual problem. Proto-Slavic peoples, that is, people who spoke the Proto-Slavic language existed, and they were not located on the Balkans. In the linguistic sense, the term "Slav" is quite obviously defined: anybody who speaks a Slavic language is a Slav. The speakers of the reconstructed Proto-Slavic language are Proto-Slavs, and wether they called themselves "Slavs" or not is completely irrelevant from the linguistic perspective.
The problem is, again, because we actually have a fairly good deal of data from the Roman period on the Balkans, we can't pretend that the Proto-Slavic speakers somehow, miraculously, were hiding in "blind sight" during the centuries of Roman occupation. As I said, we have, thanks to internal reconstruction, a very good idea about the early Proto-Slavic tongue (and just as a reminder, it has preciously little to do with the language of the Thracians).
I also find the statement "they (the Slavs) emerged from the dark abyss of Balkan provinces" both inaccurate and stagy. Whould you say that the West Slavic peoples like the Obodrites, or East Slavic peoples like the Severians moved out from the Balkans? Is there any evidence for such a supposition (I don't think there is)?
As I said before, the origin of the Slavic-speaking peoples must be sought outside of the Roman Empire, and its not as if the archaeological data isn't there (i.e. both the Milograd and Chernoles cultures lend themselves as candidates), and it is actually compatible with the linguistic data.
Actualy i never said they was located in the Balkans and you constantly say this,between Danube basin,Roman empire and Balkan, i think those geographic terms aren't same,the term Slav today indeed mean speaker of Slavic,but in Roman times the term Sklabenoi didn't mean that,we can even make assumption that even certain clan used that name in self designation,which was never used later by any Slavs in my knowledge,after all if we question everything we don't really know was the Sklabenoi speaking Slavic or not,but they were in the Danube basin not in Chernoles or whatever cultures,first do you think that Roman empire predate the Slavic language?how do you know where Proto-Slavic emerge?this is your assumptions,there are various others that say that Slavic start from the Danube,Russian primary chronicle say that Severians you mentioned moved there from the Danube basin,source written in the 12th century. River name Maros "Slavic-Morava"(in Romania Mureú, in Herodotus Máris 484 BCE , from PIE *mori ‘sea’, but with aSlavic suffix."Bustricius" Pannonia Etymology:related to an appellative *bustra 'wild stream' reconstructed from the form *bhus-ro- of the IE root *b(h)eu- 'to swell, puff'. Compare with the Slavic appellative bystrica 'fast river' which is as well very common Slavic name for rivers,river and city name in Latin Margus today known as Morava in Serbia,battle of Margus "crisis in the third century"
river name Morava is spread elsewhere in Slavic world,after all why in Poland the river names of Drava and Sava appear,we know this from Greek and Roman sources as Savus and Dravus,today known as Sava and Drava in South East Europe (Balkan) long ago atributed Illyrian origin of the rivers,also Sava is common Slavic name but 'become" later,does the 'Slavs" brought this names in B.C era in the Balkans or maybe "Illyrians" went opposite there? there is many other examples.Just to mention that Trubachev date the Slavic migration from the Danube which is written in the Russian chronicles when the Celts settled in the Danube basin,they called them Vlachs(Volcae)in their sources from German foreigners.
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You have to understand the chronology of sound shifts. In Proto-Balto-Slavic PIE *o merged to *a. Later on, Proto-Slavic did the reverse by shifting Proto-Balto-Slavic *a to *o. In contrast, the *a in modern Slavic derives from earlier Balto-Slavic long *ā. And as I said, the *a > *o sound shift in Balto-Slavic happened during the Migration Period. Latin loanwords, as I mentioned, are subject to the latter sound change. "asellus" (donkey) > "osel", "acetum" (vinegar) > "otset". The same applies to /a/ found in Germanic loanwords (in contrast, the Germanic *ō was generally rendered as *ū into Proto-Slavic ("u" in modern Slavic), whence *bōk- 'beech' yielded Slavic *buk). I might add that, to my knowledge, there's no evidence really old language contact between speakers of Proto-Slavic and Greek, which - for example - very much exists for Albanian with Greek (e.g. "mēlo" or "μηλο" > "mollë"). Now Thrace was a region that was thoroughly hellenized
The same definitely did not happen in Phrygian or Thracian, as these languages preserved Proto-Indo-European /a/ and /o/ as distinct vowels. This is why neither Phrygian nor Thracian, despite being Satem languages, were supposedly close related with Balto-Slavic.
What I would like to add is that there can be no doubt is that during the classical Antiquity, the speakers of Proto-Slavic would have to be located outside of the Roman Empire. If there was, we should see place names, personal names, etc. from the Roman period in Roman sources. We don't, and Curta for one should have been aware of this, which is why his proposal is so absurd, and why its more sensible to place the Proto-Slavic homeland outside of the Roman Empire (which takes us back to Chernoles or Milograd as the most likely choices).
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just a quesion,
do you believe or is it possible Slavic to be 'created' in Scythia minor or major?
I ask cause in my believe and from the soueces I read seems Slavic entered from East, and moved to Krakowy, and then moved again and stoped at Great Moravia
or you believe that Slavic homeland was great Moravia?
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I have also stated this for many years, but to add, the Romans also traded to areas outside of the Roman empire. The still traded for amber in the amber trail to "old prussian" lands where the Aestii where ( on the baltic )...........this trade (bringing linguistic and culture) showed the Romans no knowledge of slavic.
The Romans also traded with "crimean people"
and other places, all these outside of Roman Empire brought the Romans knowledge what was outside of their empire
Taranis,If we are to dismiss Thracian-Balto-Slavic connection which seem to confuse only,we should dismiss i think that Slavic and Baltic ever formed single language but only contacts trough history,as you mentioned "Grad" to be loanword of Italo-Celtic,Germanic then Slavic should be somewhere in Central Europe,Danube Basin,first contacts and neighbors of Slavic seem to be this people,South Slavic language has many common words with Baltic,was this words trough contacts with Baltic or with "Thracian" Southern Slavs seem to be neighbors with Baltic languages,Isoglosses
Bolg. brna 'lip' SrbHR. bȑњitsa 'muzzle' Near-Lit. burnà 'mouth';
Bolg. Džuna - a Lit. žiáunos
Bolg. Trap 'pit' SrbHR. trȁp - Lit. tárpas 'gap, the gap';
st.-sl. sѣtiti sѧ, Bolg. setjan, sescham, SrbHR.sẹtiti se - a Lit. saisti 'predict';
Bolg. draskam 'scratch' - a Lit. draskýti 'scratch' Bolg. gums, SrbHR. dȅsan (dȅsni) words. dẹsən - a Lit. dẽšinas (the corresponding word in the ancient Old Slavonic origin);
Bolg. Slaná 'rime' SrbHR slána, words. slána - a Lit. šalnà, sal̑na and so on.
Lit. ãtlaikas 'остаток' — Bolg. Leк 'чуточка',
Lit. judĕti 'двигать' — Bolg. Juda 'дракон',
Lit. ožỹs, ožìnis — Slov- аzno,
Lit kriášė — болг. Kruša (SrbHr. kruška) ,
Lit gerklė̃ 'горло', gurklỹs 'зоб, кадык' — Bolg. Grkljan (SrbHr. Grkljan),Lit. ãvinas, — O.Slav, овьнъ, Bolg. oven (SrbHr. Ovan, Slov. óven),
Lit mélžiu, mélžti — O.Slav. млъзѫ, Bolg. мъlzja 'дою' (SrbHr. muzem, Slov. mólzem).
Lit. alsúoti 'тяжело дышать',Bolg. Lъ́hvам, лъ́хна,Lit. gruzdùs — Bоlg. grъ́zdаv;
Lit. dӯrė́ti 'глядеть, — Bоlg. Dirja (Траутман BSW 56);
Lit. kíetas, лтш. ciêts Bolg.čitav, SrbHr. чи̏т 'целый
Lit. stãbaras' — Bolg. stobor,SrbHr stobor
Lit. kaũkas, лтш. kûkis — Bolg.kuk, kukir.
SrbHr.klanac,Slov. klanec,Lit. klãnas,Lts. klans
SrbHr.brzdica 'стремнина' — Lit. burzdùs 'подвижный';SrbHr. dumača,Lts. duomis
SrbHr.dvizak,Lit. dveigỹs
SrbHr. givan,Lts. gūt
SrbHr.glada,Lts. gàlds
SrbHr. Kik — Lts. kūkis, kūkums
SrbHr.korutina Lts. kaŗuȏte 'ложка';
SrbHr.Kukalj,Lit. káukolė
SrbHr.Puki — Lit. baũžas, лтш. bauzis 'безрогий';
SrbHr. Struka —Lit. rauka, raũkas
SrbHr.grumen Lit. graumenys
SrbHr guriti se,Lts. guôrît
SrbHr. Krape, — Lit. kárpa,Lts. kãrpa
SrbHr. Krnje Lit. kriaunà
SrbHr. stuga,Lit. stul̃gas
SrbHr. Ptуuћ 'птенец',Slov. ptič 'птица,Lit.putýtis 'цыпленок' (Траутман BSW 233);
SrbHr. vraniћ, Sloven. vrânič — Lit varnytis
SrbHr. Vučiћ, словен. vôlčič — лит. vilkýtis
On this map is shown that Bulgarian-Macedonian,Serbo-Croat,Slovenian(South Slavic) were close neighbors to Baltic languages while the rest not so...so how is this possible? in my opinion i think again Slavic was in the Danube basin,Central Europe,bordering Thracian in the South and Baltic North of Pripet river,the German,Italo Celtic in the West,Iranian-Slavic contacts seem to be the last.
Bolg. brna 'lip' SrbHR. bȑњitsa 'muzzle' Near-Lit. burnà 'mouth';
Bolg. Džuna - a Lit. žiáunos
Bolg. Trap 'pit' SrbHR. trȁp - Lit. tárpas 'gap, the gap';
st.-sl. sѣtiti sѧ, Bolg. setjan, sescham, SrbHR.sẹtiti se - a Lit. saisti 'predict';
Bolg. draskam 'scratch' - a Lit. draskýti 'scratch' Bolg. gums, SrbHR. dȅsan (dȅsni) words. dẹsən - a Lit. dẽšinas (the corresponding word in the ancient Old Slavonic origin);
Bolg. Slaná 'rime' SrbHR slána, words. slána - a Lit. šalnà, sal̑na and so on.
Lit. ãtlaikas 'остаток' — Bolg. Leк 'чуточка',
Lit. judĕti 'двигать' — Bolg. Juda 'дракон',
Lit. ožỹs, ožìnis — Slov- аzno,
Lit kriášė — болг. Kruša (SrbHr. kruška) ,
Lit gerklė̃ 'горло', gurklỹs 'зоб, кадык' — Bolg. Grkljan (SrbHr. Grkljan),Lit. ãvinas, — O.Slav, овьнъ, Bolg. oven (SrbHr. Ovan, Slov. óven),
Lit mélžiu, mélžti — O.Slav. млъзѫ, Bolg. мъlzja 'дою' (SrbHr. muzem, Slov. mólzem).
Lit. alsúoti 'тяжело дышать',Bolg. Lъ́hvам, лъ́хна,Lit. gruzdùs — Bоlg. grъ́zdаv;
Lit. dӯrė́ti 'глядеть, — Bоlg. Dirja (Траутман BSW 56);
Lit. kíetas, лтш. ciêts Bolg.čitav, SrbHr. чи̏т 'целый
Lit. stãbaras' — Bolg. stobor,SrbHr stobor
Lit. kaũkas, лтш. kûkis — Bolg.kuk, kukir.
SrbHr.klanac,Slov. klanec,Lit. klãnas,Lts. klans
SrbHr.brzdica 'стремнина' — Lit. burzdùs 'подвижный';SrbHr. dumača,Lts. duomis
SrbHr.dvizak,Lit. dveigỹs
SrbHr. givan,Lts. gūt
SrbHr.glada,Lts. gàlds
SrbHr. Kik — Lts. kūkis, kūkums
SrbHr.korutina Lts. kaŗuȏte 'ложка';
SrbHr.Kukalj,Lit. káukolė
SrbHr.Puki — Lit. baũžas, лтш. bauzis 'безрогий';
SrbHr. Struka —Lit. rauka, raũkas
SrbHr.grumen Lit. graumenys
SrbHr guriti se,Lts. guôrît
SrbHr. Krape, — Lit. kárpa,Lts. kãrpa
SrbHr. Krnje Lit. kriaunà
SrbHr. stuga,Lit. stul̃gas
SrbHr. Ptуuћ 'птенец',Slov. ptič 'птица,Lit.putýtis 'цыпленок' (Траутман BSW 233);
SrbHr. vraniћ, Sloven. vrânič — Lit varnytis
SrbHr. Vučiћ, словен. vôlčič — лит. vilkýtis
On this map is shown that Bulgarian-Macedonian,Serbo-Croat,Slovenian(South Slavic) were close neighbors to Baltic languages while the rest not so...so how is this possible? in my opinion i think again Slavic was in the Danube basin,Central Europe,bordering Thracian in the South and Baltic North of Pripet river,the German,Italo Celtic in the West,Iranian-Slavic contacts seem to be the last.
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Taranis
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Well, for the record, I for one did not invoke Mario Alinei and/or Thracian-as-Balto-Slavic.
Here I agree.
The two are different, but the Lower Danube (my definition would be: Voivodina and anything downstream to the mouth of the Danube) is geographically also part of the Balkans peninsula. However, it doesn't change anything about my points: the Pannonian basin and the Danube region is just as unsuitable for the Slavic homeland as the Balkans proper.Is it really of any significance how the early Slavs labeled themselves, as long as they spoke the (Proto-)language? After all, the language must have originated somewhere and didn't come from thin air.
Yes, the fragmentation of Proto-Slavic language into daughter branches occured after the demise of the Western Roman Empire.
The Proto-Slavic homeland was most likely located around Belarus / northern Ukraine and/or southeastern Poland, not at the Danube. How do we know this? Comparative method in linguistics, and internal reconstruction. I mentioned before that the Slavic word for "beech" is borrowed from Germanic, while the word for "birch" in Slavic is a native word inherited from earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic (though a cognate with the Germanic one - compare Lithuanian "beržas" as well as Russian "bereza" or "береза" with English "birch" and German "Birke"). Its obvious that the Proto-Slavic homeland must have been located in an area with birches but no beeches (which, again, is compatible with the Milograd culture).
Also, to play Devil's advocate, in his geography, Ptolemy (mid 2nd century AD) mentions an ethnic group in ("European") Sarmatia, called the Sauaroi (Σαυαροι). While I concede the name is only somewhat similar, its worthwhile to note that they're at the correct place.
I don't see anything diagnostically Slavic about the river name "Drava". As far as I know, it is "Old European" in origin, and has parallels elsewhere (the Treve in northern Germany is the Germanic cognate, for example).
Nonsense. The term "Vlach"/Wallach/Welsh was originally the designation of the Germanic peoples for the Celtic peoples (it is indeed derived from the tribal name "Volcae"), but was later re-applied to Romance speakers.
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