Re: [cybalist] SV: Re: avestan and vedic

Tommy Tyrberg writes:

--quote--
The similarities are so striking that
neither branch could have had time to
change very much, which should put the
earliest Vedic stratum well back in
the second millenium BC.
--end quote--

This reflects what I've gotten from my reading.

I do admit my comment about the proto-Indics
being north of Afganistan at the back end of
China was wrong; I know better, and knew better
then, but was not thinking. The 'Aryans' entered
India up the Oxus (I guess that's the name, the
river flowing into the Aral from the southeast)
and then over the mountains into the Indus
catchment.

There is also the reality that proto-Indic seems
to be attested in Iran and the southern Caucusus
before proto-Iranian is attested. It's as if the
Indics were a first wave, with the Iranians as a
second wave that never made it to India, but
replaced Indic in Iran and thereabouts.

Am I correct? Balto-Slavic (and Uralic) got its
loans from Iranian, and NOT Indic.

Chariots. The Indics had them first, then the
Iranians (who seem to have been to the north and
west of the Indics) and finally everyone else
(and in probably a remarkably short period of time).

Mark.