[tied] Re: Proto Vedic Continuity Theory of Bharatiya (Indian) Lang

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
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> > I dare say there are in the world no fitting
> > documented examples of
> > a process of language replacement similar to that
> > which occurred in
> > South Asia. IMOH, this is a still poorly understood
> > _unique_ case.
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> ****GK: Well, maybe, maybe not. It is certain that the
> traditional "invasion" view is one of the most
> "protested" such. *****
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> Francesco then goes on to make many interesting
> observations and references. But to my mind, the
> bottom line is this quote from Witzel:
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> > However,
> > linguists and philologists still maintain, and for
> > good reasons,
> > that some IA speaking groups actually entered from
> > the outside, via
> > some of the (north)western corridors of the
> > subcontinent.

That is absolutely incorrect. There is no agreement among linguists
and philologist where the IE langauges originated and when.

"Over seventy possible candidates for the putative homeland of the
"Indo-Europeans" have been proposed, none of them acceptable to all
the researchers (Alinei 1998). The search for the homeland has been
tainted by ethnic and nationalistic biases prompting Demoule (1980,
p.120) to quip, "we have seen that one primarily places the IE's
(Indo-Europeans) in the north if one is German….in the east if one is
Russian, and in the middle if, being Italian or Spanish, one has no
chance of competing for the privilege (as quoted by Lal 2005, p.64)."

"Mallory's observation is apropos: "One does not ask `where is the
Indo-European homeland? But rather `where do they put it now?' "

As I have noted already IE linguists H. H. Hock and linguists Johanna
Nichols are not in disfavor of a IE homeland in the Indian subcontinent.

M. kelkar

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> And that's all that is required. Without such an
> "invasion", no matter what the subsequent story of who
> or what contributed more or less to linguistic change,
> there would have been no implantation and development
> of Indo-Aryan in India.
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