Re: Hindu noise-makers, Elst and OIT -- a review of book by Harald

At 1:19:18 AM on Thursday, October 17, 2013, Lalit Mishra
wrote:

> I spent many years in the region where Munda and Koraon
> inhabits, don't think, the language they speak can be said
> to be part of Dravidian language family,

The Munda languages are not Dravidian, and Rajan did not say
that they were.

> From: Rajan MenonGenetics and the linguistic issue of the
> populations of Greater India:

> From this point in genetic fission two major clusters follow:

> (1) The first major cluster divided into two sub-groups:

> a) The Munda- north Dravidian forms a sub-group and a
> second sub-group being comprised of two Dravidian
> combinations.

In other words, there is a genetic subgroup that comprises
Munda speakers and North Dravidian speakers.

Brian