Well, based on the article you quote, they cannot have been herders as the switch to herding started only in "early modern times", when the area was already settled byUralic speakers. So they must have been hunter-gatherers.abahot wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:13 am Yeah, those dates are definitely too late, but I do recall reading somewhere (although without justification) that the very northern parts of Scandinavia probably only switched to Uralic languages around 500 AD. However, I have been unable to find any information on if "Paleo-Laplandic" speakers were foragers or herders or whatever.
Paleo-European languages
Re: Paleo-European languages
Re: Paleo-European languages
From a cursory look around the web I see sources claiming that reindeer herding started in northern Fennoscandia around 2000 BP, but none of these really looked like scholarly sources to me.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Re: Paleo-European languages
Now, this source tells me that reindeer herding in northern Fennoscandia started around 800-900 CE.
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Re: Paleo-European languages
Not much I can say to this, but note that Proto-Uralic is probably not earlier than Late PIE (i.e., 3000 BC), perhaps even a bit later.