The Bend of the Volga or Northern Central Europe?
Some scholars have proposed that Uralic languages would have been spoken far more westward, even in what is now Northern Germany and Denmark. Especially Kalevi Wiik, a professor of Phonetics, has claimed that Germanic languages were originally “Indo-European spoken with a Uralic accent”. However, Wiik’s hypothesis has received hard criticism from the side of Finnish Indo-Europeanists. There seems to be no hard evidence that could help us identify the languages probably spoken in Northern Europe before the present-day Indo-European and Uralic languages.
