Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Comm (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:10:15 GMT

"John Atkinson" <johnacko@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:NQ62e.16318$C7.3166@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
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> "Comm" <no@spam.com> wrote...
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>> <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> wrote...
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>> > Comm wrote:
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>> >> Our word for
>> >> God, for instance, is Bog. We say the Slavs got that word from us.
>> >
>> > A Russian told me it came from a cognate of Sanskrit or Iranian
> Bhaga;
>> > Hindi Bhagawan seems like a cognate.
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>> And I will maintain that Russians would prefer to have gotten it from
>> Iranians than to have (god forbid) gotten it from us Tatars.
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> Bloody clever of the Slavs to get it from your mob back when the two
> peoples were still thousands of km apart. When the Turks were still
> back in the Altai Mountains, and the proto-Slavs were NW of the Black
> Sea. Next door to proto-Iranian speakers, BTW.

You grossly underestimate the wide travels of nomadic people. "Back in the
Altai Mountains?"
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> J.
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