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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 05:30:10 GMT
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In article <boyleCyz2oz.BF@netcom.com>, Joseph Boyle <boyle@netcom.com> wrote:
>[much good stuff about the Scythians].
>Their advance brought the Scythians into fierce conflict with the 
>Cimmerians who had for centuries enjoyed possession of the Caucasus and 
>the plain lying to the north of the Black Sea. ...

This brings up a question that has been bugging me for some time.

What were the linguistic affinities of the *Cimmerian* language?

I suspect it was probably Indo-European, but what branch?
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