Northeast European Tribe, Scythian

Once upon the time, says modern archaology, the European population north of the Alps retreated to the southeast and southwest due to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) which has been dated around 18.000-22.000 BP. This created an Eastern and a Western Block.

The Western Block represented the Magdalenian cultures which repopulated the depopulated territories around 14.500-15.000 BP. The Hamburg and the Ertebolle cultures appears to be off-springs of the Magdalenians - started to spread around 13.000 BP - populating an area which includes what is today Poland, northern Germany, Denmark, Southern Sweden and SW Norway - as well as Britain and the isles of the North Sea.
 
The Eastern Block represented much of the widespread Gravettian techno-complex, covering eastern Poland, Belo-Russia, the Baltics, NW Russia and Finland.

Aving a common origin these blocks have kept a normal relationship-of-neighbourhood to each other, as ''people from each groups have left traces of each others genetic, cultural and lingistic characteristics in each others areas and population. Intermerriages may well have happend, although to limited extent.
 
The Mesolithic period brougth the initial colonization of the Scandia Peninsula around 10.300-10.000 BP - and during the mext millennia also the Baltic, Northern Russia and Finland was populated. Today we migth understand that the Russia and the Baltics were not colonized from "the east", but rather from the southern Baltics.

The Lyalovo or Pitted Ware-style seems to be the culture that evolving to Combed Ware - as it encompasses northern Noray, northern Sweden, the Gulf of Bothnia, the White Sea and the Baltic - extending eastward to the Urals. Of course, there were several cultures that appear to have intersected with it, putting their own unique stamp on the various regions - but a commoness of cutural exession is evident in the archeological material.

It appears unlikely that a Ahrensbergian influence in western Russia at the end of the Paleolithic would have sparked Uralic development, although it have left a substantial amount substrate elements, which today is recognised as a massive amount of "IE loan-words" in the Fenno-Ugrian languages.

Today experts discusses if the Proto-IE in relation to the old tongues of the Tocharian, Anatolian and north European. The Pit Grave culture is considered as a central group for late Proto-IE, while the Khvalynsk culture is considered to possibly possess the language that was the immediate predecessor of the proto-IE. Conteporary researh shows that the Uralian languages actually share more than 1/3 of the basic vocabulary of the old IE-descendants of NW Europe, which clearly implies that the Uralic and the IE lanuages share a common origin.

Much later the waves of war, migraton and religious dominance led to a latinification of the North-European area, and a paralell "byzantification" of the eastern block. Thus the uralian-speaking Schytians became "byzantified", as the linguistical and cultural monopoly of he church was established throughout south-eastern Europe and Russia. Since the victorious conquests of the eastern church, between 950 and 1050; Ucraine, Belo-Rusia and Russia have learnt to speak "Grylic".

But before the great takeover of Istanbul - from 987 - it used to be "Fenno-Ugrian". Thus we may say that the old Schytian populations actually spoke Fenno-Ugrian - as their mother's tongues...