VMs: Re: Piraha and the VMS

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Philip Neal wrote:

> Eastern Europe may conceivably be a different matter: the main
> evidence here would be the chance recording of Crimean Gothic in
> the 16th century.

I have only recently learned (and reported here) that 
the Kiptchak-Armenian was still in use in Poland in
the 17th c. The system used modified Armenian alphabet
for writing the Kipchak language (of the Turkic tribe also
known as Polovtsy).

Another major language in this area was Lithuanian, which
had no written form, as the official language of 
the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was Ruthenian. The original
Lithuanian died out and was restored in the 19th c.
but then based on the surviving Semigotian.

Best regards,

Rafal