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cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Bangani is a _satem_ language -- an unconspicuous and little-known
member of the Western Pahari group of Indo-Arian, spoken in the
Indian Himalayas. What gave rise to the current controversy over
Bangani was the 1987 announcement, by the German linguist Claus Peter
Zoller, of the discovery of an alleged stratum of centum _loanwords_
in it. The most startling aspect of that story is that for various
reasons no known centum group matches the linguistic profile of the
hypothetical source language (it can't have been Tocharian or Greek,
in particular). More recent studies have partly undermined the
original claims of Zoller, though according to some eminent
Indologists (cf. H.H. Hock's statement below) an interesting residue
remains and the case cannot be regarded as closed. We shall probably
have to wait a few more years till more fieldwork is done before
reliable conclusions can be reached. A hitherto undetected "lost
tribe" of centum IEs in the East is not something that cannot be
imagined (not after Tocharian!), but an extraordinary hypothesis like
this requires a really solid proof.
>
> http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/himalaya/individ/enigma.html
>
> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/bangani.hock.html
>
> Piotr
Thank you very much Piotr, now it's OK!
Philippe - Aslan