Re: [tied] Khva Tyya O Ryya Chi Ksha Na Ta Ku I [Was Wheeled vehicl

"Dardic" is a geographical or ethnographic label, corresponding to several different groups of Indo-Aryan languages. Whatever peculiar traits unite them are due to areal convergence in the Karakoram region rather than to common descent. Since Georg Morgenstierne's identification of Dardic as Indo-Aryan (as opposed to Nuristani), further fieldwork has confirmed and refined his classification. For detailed info, see

http://www.monitor.net/~jmko/karakoram/dard-tc.htm

http://users.sedona.net/~strand/lngFrameL.html

On Nuristani, see

http://users.sedona.net/~strand/Nuristani/nuristanis.html

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 7:15 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Khva Tyya O Ryya Chi Ksha Na Ta Ku I [Was Wheeled vehicles]

I had just read a comment from Peter T. Daniels in sci.lang about Dardic being coordinate with Indo-Aryan and Iranian ("Re: Aleveolar stops"). I don't know how common that view is. Nuristani is indeed usually classified as a separate branch of I-I.