Re: beyond langauges

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@> wrote:

> > Which authoritative linguists or philologists make a distinction
> > between Indic and Indo-Aryan?

> Witzel does. Mittani Indo Aryan aika>Sanskrit eka hence Vedas are
> younger than 1500 BCE.

I'd like to see confirmation from him. In 2001, in 'Autochthonous
Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts' he wrote,
"Nowadays this well-reconstructed language is usually called
Indo-Iranian (IIr.), while its Indic branch is called (Old) Indo-Aryan
(IA). An independent third branch is represented by the Kafiri or
Nuristani of N.E. Afghanistan."

From this I understand that he regards the terms as synonymous.

Richard.