Re: Indus Valley script decoded?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "wtsdv" <liberty@...> wrote:

> He has
> even written recently of "a dialectical continuum of
> Prakr.t, Siamese (Laua) and Tamir.. speakers, it appears
> that the concordant parole was: milakkha" (See http://
> groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianCivilization/message/47505).
> In what world do Prakrit, Siamese and Tamil form a
> "dialectical contiuum"?

Royal courts? "Rachasap" to use the Thai word (rajas'apta in
Sanskrit?) has an enormous amount of Pali in it. Lawa is an
Austroasiatic language, whereas Siamese is Tai-Kadai (a.k.a. Daic),
possibly as closely related to Lawa as Tamil is to Greek.

Richard.