Re: [tied] Ice Age and Proto-Indo-Aryan languages

From: P&G
Message: 18848
Date: 2003-02-17

> The area of Indo-Aryan languages was NOT covered with ice.
>...continuous habitation of
> animals and people was possible ... So, why couldn't the languages
> be 'autochthonous' ..

No one is saying the area was uninhabited! Just that the linguistic
evidence shows that whatever they spoke, it wasn't PIE (nor Sanskrit!)

Peter