LL-L "History" 2006.01.13 (05) [E]

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13 January 2006 * Volume 05
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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2006.01.13 (03) [E]

From: Daniel Prohaska

Dear Paul, Reinhard,
Cimbrian (Zimbrisch) is an off-shoot of 12th and 13th century Carinthian and
East Tyrolean dialects the speakers of which settled in the first "seven
communities" from which a further "15 communities were founded".

There is no genetic or linguistic relation to the "Cimbri", the Germanic (or
Celtic) tribe mentioned my Tacitus to have moved into what it northern Italy
today.

It was only in the 18th or 19th centuries that it was thought that these
speakers of this colonial Bavarian dialect were the descendents of the
"Cimbri", but from a linguistic point of view this cannot be sustained.

Dan

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How disappointing! I liked the idea of a lost tribe of Jutlanders blundering 
into the Alps. Oh well...

Paul 

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