--- In cybalist@..., "Greaghoir MacIain" <greaghoir@...> wrote:
> Does any one happen to know of any other Indo-European linguisticly
related cultures, other than Celtic and Roman, whose societal
castes/classes corespond to:
>
> 1) religious functionaries
> 2) warriors
> 3) landowner/merchent
>
> If so, what are the cultures, and what are the names of the
classes/castes.
There's always the Hindu caste system, which I believe started the
whole idea of this analysis:
1) brahmins - priests
2) kshatriyas - warriors
3) sudras - cultivators.
Check on number 3 - I may have got it wrong. There is a fourth
caste, but the argument goes that it doesn't matter. (I hope that's
not along the lines of, 'No one who really mattered was poor.')
Richard.