Re: Also an Austro-Asiatic Disconnect

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <smykelkar@...>
wrote:

> > Have you heard of the Austro-Asiatic Invasion Theory?
> >
> > Richard.
>
> Yes I have heard it. The French Indologist Bernard Sergent.

Are you joking? Does Sergent really spea of an Austroasiatic
***invasion*** of the Indian subcontinent?

> Because the Indian Sub has 5 major language familes other than the
> "Indo-European" they would also have to have invaded at some point.

How to figure out a Neolithic Austroasiatic "invasion" -- because
the settlement of Austroasiatic-speaking populations in the Indian
subcontinent dates from the Neolithic, doesn't it?


Francesco