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Interestingly, before Turkic and Mongol nomads there were Indo-European nomads which were just as convincing. I wonder if ancient Greeks could actually understa
by thriftwy 3y ago
Interestingly, before Turkic and Mongol nomads there were Indo-European nomads which were just as convincing. I wonder if ancient Greeks could actually understand some Scythian. They didn't diverge that long ago.
There were also Finnic nomads which manifested as Ungri turning Hungarians.
- johngladtj 3y agoThe huns and Hungarians are not related.
- thriftwy 3y agoThank you - checked and corrected.
- 4gotunameagain 3y agoThe last common ancestor language of Hellenic and Iranian languages dates back to something like 1500 years before their individual classifications, so it's quite unlikely Greeks understood Schythian languages. Scythians were also illiterate, which I imagine would not have been the case for long if the languages were closely related.
- clort 3y agojust by-the-by: if they did not have writing, they were a non-literate culture, not illiterate as such.
- 4gotunameagain 3y agoThanks ! It was written like that on the article and I thought it was the same :)
- thriftwy 3y agoEven if Scythians were fluent in Greek, the lack of material to write on would keep them mostly illiterate.