[gothic-l] Re: Germanic and Lappish / Saami

[MCLSSAA2 at FS2.MT.UMIST.AC.UK]

--- In gothic-l at egroups.com, sig <sigmund at a...> wrote:
> Dear MCLSSAA2 at f..., (please, sign next time so we
> don't have to discuss with an e-mail address :^))

  I am Anthony Appleyard alias MCLSSAA2. I email through a university
department's LAN server, and thus I am not always master of what I am
called in message headers.

>  You're lucky not having written in any Scandinavian language! The
> ethnic appelative Lappish is not *politically correct*..(lapp in
> Swedish means i. a. patch).

I am sorry if I caused offense. How objectionable is the word "Lapp"
in Scandinavia? I was merely using the name most widely known in
England.

> Use Saami (or Sami). ...

As long as readers across the world know what the name means.

  dirk at s... wrote:-
> the following link takes you to a recent paper on the "Origin of the
> Scandinavian Languages" from the linguistics department at the
> University of Stockholm.
> http://www.ling.su.se/staff/oesten/papers/Theorigin.pdf
> Basically, the author argues that Germanic languages did not develop
> on the Scandinavian peninsula at all. ...

If Saami-type archaeology has been found as far south as Hamburg, then
Finno-Ugrian languages could have been spoken in all of Denmark and
parts of German Schlewsig-Holstein, and its speakers there would have
changed from tundra nomadism to a more settled and thicker populated
life mode as the climate there became better as the ice cap retreated.
Then, Indo-European could have overridden Finno-Ugrian and developed
into Germanic in the Hamburg area, not necessarily in Scandinavia.
That is, Germanic may have started as Indo-European spoken with a
Schleswig Finno-Ugrian accent, in the same sort of way as the
characteristic phonetic fatures of Common Romance may have started as
Latin spoken with an Osco-Umbrian accent.



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