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

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

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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)."
> >
> > M. Kelkar
> > ==========
> >
> > It does not account for Mordvin vrgas being a Sanscrit word
> > not an iranian word.
> >
> > We are not dealing with PIE / Uralic lexical exchanges.
> > But specific languages to specific languages.
> > This is why your approach is basically flawed.
> >
> > 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."
>

That is indeed ingenious. Thus the way has been opened for my English
Continuity Theory, which states that English has always been spoken
where it is spoken today. This theory replaces an earlier invasion
theory, by which English-speaking peoples invaded many of these
countries. Since the Uralic Continuity Theory has become part of the
general culture in all countries where Uralic languages are spoken, my
theory will become part of the general culture in all countries where
English is spoken and I will become rich and famous and I can continue
studying the Vedas in their original language, English, and don't have
to bother about learning silly local languages like Sanskrit.


Torsten