Re: [tied] MIA and Vedic

--- In cybalist@..., "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> > How did such a disconnect occur?
> Think in terms of dialects. Vedic appears to have been one

dialect,

> Classical Sanskrit another, (albeit a slightly artificial hybrid

with deep

> influences from Vedic and the Prakrits) and the sources of the

modern I-A

> languages yet others.

Fascinating. So basically the ancient forms of Sanskrit are only
distantly related to the modern Indian languages in that there is no
clear lineage? The modern languages emerged from some other,
presumably Sanskrit, dialect than the ones that are recorded in the
Vedas and later classical Sanskrit texts?