LL-L: "Frisii" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 04.SEP.1999 (01)

[Sandy Fleming]

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From: Christian Chiarcos [myrddin at cs.tu-berlin.de]
Subject: "Frisii"

Lowlands-L Administrator wrote:

> For instance, the _Frisii_ of the
> North Sea coast are already mentioned by early Greek writers, and it
appears
> safe to say that they were not speakers of Germanic and possibly not of
Celtic,
>

[ ??? ]

> most likely being descendants of people who did not speak Indo-European.
Who
>

[ ??? ]

> were they?  What did they speak?  We must assume that substrates of these
> various unknown languages greatly influenced the development of diversity
also
> among the Lowlands languages we deal with here on Lowlands-L.
>
> Welcome back to the Lowlands!
>
> Regards,
>
> Reinhard/Ron
>

Although this message is a bit older, it may be allowed to ask:
Where is that information from ? I have never read about
a theory of non-Germanic Frisii !

Greetings,
Christian Chiarcos

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