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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: Finnish origins
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Organization: That would be telling.
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: Erland Sommarskog (sommar@enea.se) wrote:
: : In today's Svenska Dagbladet there is an article with the
: : headline "Saami Scandinavian Ursprache?" (There is not a
: : good English translation of "Ursprache", is there?)

Jarmo Ryyti <ryyti@tukki.jyu.fi> says:
: Proto-language. The scholars speak about Proto-Uralic peoples
: and languages,Proto-Finnic languages/peoples.

It's not proposed that Saami is ancestral to Swedish, is it?  
So "proto-language" will not fit here.  A better translation
might be "primordial language".
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