Are Slavs a lost East Germanic Tribe like Goths, Burgundians and Vandals were?

[Proto-Shaman]

yes

[Kastrioti1443]

yes

[Roy]

I can't see any obvious connection.

[Ianus]

No, Slavs and Germanic are two different things

[Peikko]

Both are turanid, so yes.

[arcticwolf]

LOL this insane thread still exists? Mama mia, you gotta be really nutty to think so, but hey this is TA , no shortage of assorted nuts. LOL

[Yaroslav]

No, that is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Almost reminiscent of British Israelism lunacy.

[JeanBaMac]

Are Slavs a lost Eastern Germanic Tribe like Goths, Burgundians?

We all know that the germanic language is part of Scandinavia, uk and middle europe. But what most people dont notice is that similar to slavic languages there is actually a divide between them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani...Classification


You can see that north germanic are the scandinvian languages of today like swedish and norwegian and so on. While the west germanic is the today english speaking language as well as dutch and german speaking ones, although they have seen a lot of transitions and influence from foreigners. Frankish also died out.

But so did the entire germanic language group the east germanic language. It was spoken by goths, vandals and burgundians who all died out. Burgundians were the last one existing as they had a kingdom even in the high middle ages, but soon they belonged also to the past.

Here you can see the greens are east germanic people, while the blue are north and the others are west.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages

The distribution of the primary Germanic dialect groups in Europe in around 1 AD:
North Germanic
North Sea Germanic, or Ingvaeonic
Weser-Rhine Germanic, or Istvaeonic
Elbe Germanic, or Irminonic
East Germanic (Slavs?)


This was before any slavs existed and now lets look at slavs in the very early day of the year 650







And this map goes even much earlier when slavs are supposed to be one language with baltics. It looks much more like slavs where a germanic tribe to begin with which was influenced by uralic and persian people as well as later with their goth relatives again before the hunic invasion took place in ukraine. It seems the huns and the migration period which followed after that and the extinction of east germanic tribes as well as the splitting of the balto slavic language and the slavic languages them self into south, east and west slavic makes it very likely that slavs are in fact germanic people who where alianeted in the course of histroy

No, Slavs are Eastern Indo-EUropeans (Satem), like Balts.
Eastern Germanic people are Western European with minor Baltic admixture.

[Vlatko Vukovic]

Up!!

[Dandelion]

They draw most ancestry from them likely, but that's where it stops. And even if there are no proofs for it. I am a believer in the hypothesis that those Germanic speakers who lives in the Crimea until they assimilated in the 18th century to have been the last East Germanic speakers and not just German immigrants. Gothic might have been a spoken language until that late in history, sadly unrecorded for centuries due to its speakers being rural and surrounded by Turkics and Slavs.