IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Rick Mc Callister]

	Is there any lexical substrate (from an unknown source) common to
Uralic and any IE languages? e.g. between Uralic (or its branches) and
Germanic/Balto-Slavic (ot their sub-branches)?
	What was the farther western boundary of Uralic speakers? Does it
correspond to historically known boundaries between Saami and Scandinavian,
& Estonian et al. and Baltic languages? Or was Uralic once spoken in S.
Scandinavian and farther west along the southern Baltic?

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>To be more precise: the region between Volga and Urals is the usual
>theory these days, although some suggest more fanciful
>scenarios. Lexical substrate suggests that the Siberian U languages
>(Khanty, Manysi, Samoyedic) have moved to the current areas from Europe
>(e.g., roughly 75% (!) of the proto-Samoyedic lexicon is without
>a credible etymology). A strong lexical substrate from an unknown language
>seems to exist in Saamic too; as for Finnic, the case is not as clear.

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> - Ante Aikio

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701