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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> At any rate, I believe I have shown enough possible ways to
> reasonably reconcile the lexical exchange between the eastern IE
> languages and Uralic with an Indian Urheimat scenario (Elst 2000)."
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> M. Kelkar
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> It does not account for Mordvin vrgas being a Sanscrit word
> not an iranian word.
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> We are not dealing with PIE / Uralic lexical exchanges.
> But specific languages to specific languages.
> This is why your approach is basically flawed.
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> Arnaud
There is a Uralic Continuity Theory which would elminate the need for
migrations of Uralic languages and by extention IE languages
"3.1 The Uralic Continuity Theory
In the last thirty years, there has been an important breakthrough in
the history of European origins, which only recently has begun to
attract the attention of specialists of other areas. This is the so
called Uralic Continuity Theory (in Finnish: uralilainen
jatkuvuusteoria), developed in the Seventies by archaeologists and
linguists specialised in the Uralic area of Europe, that is the area
of Finno-Ugric and Samoyed languages. This theory claims an
uninterrupted continuity of Uralic populations and languages from
Paleolithic: Uralic people would belong to the heirs of Homo sapiens
sapiens coming from Africa, they would have occupied mid-eastern
Europe in Paleolithic glacial times, and during the deglaciation of
Northern Europe, in Mesolithic, would have followed the retreating
icecap, eventually settling in their present territories (Meinander
1973, Nuñez 1987, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1998).
The relevance of this theory for our problem lies in the following
points:
(1) it replaces an earlier `invasion theory', quite similar to the
traditional IE one, and practically modelled on it.
(2) It represents the first claim of uninterrupted continuity from
Paleolithic of the second European linguistic phylum, thus opening the
way to a similar theory for IE.
(3) It is now current not only among specialists of Finno-Ugric
prehistory and of Finno-Ugric languages, but has become part of the
general culture in all countries where Uralic languages are spoken."
M. Kelkar
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