Re: who are indus people?

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51023
Date: 2007-12-28

I found it hard to read this reference
till the last page.
Maybe there are about 30 sanscrit words,
the rest is is a drench of muddy speculations.
Everything is shaky and undocumented :
page 16
kâna : "one-eyed"
why not Latin caecus "blind".
The rest is of the same kind.
Empty assertions with no proof.
Pseudo-science.
 
I'd be grateful if you have something better to suggest.
 
Arnaud.
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Wordingham
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: who are indus people?

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@ ...>
wrote:

> Do you have a list of supposedly substrate words ?
> or internet reference ?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kishore patnaik

> >That the Indus people(s) were Dravidian speakers is, on the
> >contrary, just one theory among many which is, moreover, not
> >upported by the most recent studies on the substrate (= non-IE)
> >words found in the earliest layers of the Rgveda. <Snip>

Take a look at 'Substrate Languages in Old Indo-Aryan (Rgvedic, Middle
and Late Vedic)'
http://www.ejvs. laurasianacademy .com/ejvs0501/ ejvs0501article. pdf .

Richard.