IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Wed Feb 9 00:45:34 UTC 2000


>sarima at friesen.net writes:

>>joatsimeon at aol.com writes

>>Not to mention that the Germanics had been expanding at the expense of
>>Celtic-speakers for centuries before the Romans came along; as a matter of
>>fact, it was Caesar who forced them out of Gaul and back across the Rhine.
>>What's now Southern Germany and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland
>>was once Celtic-speaking territory.

>In fact I think this area includes the most likely Celtic homeland.

-- I'd agree with you there; somewhere on the Upper Danube, probably.  Or at
least between Austria and Alsace.



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