Rant of a linguist
Jun. 7th, 2010 01:56 amFirst, the Germanic tribes were suddenly all Celts.
Now, the Celts are suddenly Germanic...
**shakes head**
For me, what counts is the language people speak, as evidenced by old place names if we're talking historic tribes. What's so difficult about all this?
By the way: Farsi (=Persian) is an Indo-European language. Persians (and Kurds, the former Medes), are not Arabs. The languages aren't even structurally related.-
Now, the Celts are suddenly Germanic...
**shakes head**
For me, what counts is the language people speak, as evidenced by old place names if we're talking historic tribes. What's so difficult about all this?
By the way: Farsi (=Persian) is an Indo-European language. Persians (and Kurds, the former Medes), are not Arabs. The languages aren't even structurally related.-