01-18-2024, 11:15 AM
(01-18-2024, 10:57 AM)Anglesqueville Wrote: ^^ I haven't been interested in NEO538 at all so far, so I don't have anything to say about it. As for using VolgaOka_IA as a source for the Saamis (including the two from Levänluhta) this is a perfectly justified choice if one follows Lang's theories (which is my case, at least on this point). This choice requires to be completed by a bonus from Krasnoyarsk_BA, and gives very satisfactory adjustments with qpAdm.
Per the theories of Lang NEO538 represents the northeastern group of what he calls Tapiola Ware, which is in linguistuics putatively associated with certain similarities of Saami and Merya to the opposition to the more western Baltic Finnic.
It would be difficult to justify using something far more remote than it in my opinion.