Re: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white people"?

Thanx for sharing this.
There is some Vedda substrate in the Vedda dialect of
Sinhala, from what I read, but I gather it's not very
substantial.
Is there a Vedda substrate in Sinhala as a whole?
Wikipedia mentions a substrate in S. Dravidian but
doesn't state if it's Vedda or not. Is there any way
to tell?
Were there any Dravidian languages in Sri Lanka before
the arrival of Sinhala? Or was Tamil the first to
arrive? I'm guessing Tamil arrived not too long after
Sinhala.

--- Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
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> > Re Dravidian: on Wikipedia, I've read that its
> > speakers travel from north to south --there is
> some
> > substrate in S. Dravidian.
>
> This is not certain at all. Some scholars have
> pointed to a Vedda
> substrate in Sri Lanka, but that is at minimum very
> elusive to
> detect!
>
> > And in the Sindhi article on Wikipedia, that
> Sindhi has Dravidian
> > substrate.
>
> Not only Sindhi, but also Gujarati and Marathi, show
> the traces of
> Dravidian grammatical features -- see F.C.
> Southworth's papers (very
> interesting!) at
>
>

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~fsouth/Proto-DravidianAgriculture.pdf

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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~fsouth/DravidianElement.pdf

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> > I read in Witzel that Dravidian only shows up in
> the later books.
> > So, would it be logical to surmise that the
> Indo-Aryans ran into
> > Dravidian somewhere around the lower to midddle
> Indus?
>
> Yes, it would.
>
> Best,
> Francescop
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