On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 21:09:07 -0000, "michael_donne"
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michael_donne@...> wrote:
>Hock has come out in support of the authenticity of Bangani.
>http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/bangani.hock.html
>
>The finding of a Centum language in the middle of the Satem
>stronghold in the Himalayas north of Delhi is said to have profound
>implications for linguistics.
>
>What are these implications?
I have no opinion on (pre-)Bangani (Bangani itself is mostly a satem,
Neo-Indo-Aryan language: the controversy is about a number of
centum-like words in Bangani, which may or may not have been borrowed
from an extinct centum language in the area). If there was a centum
language in the Himalayas, it would be very interesting, but perhaps
"profound implications" is too strong. If a centum language
(Tocharian) was spoken in the Tarim basin, why not another one (it
doesn't appear to be either Tocharian or Greek) in the Himalayas as
well?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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