--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Deriving PIE from India without turning PIE linguistics upside down
would require an acrobatic historical scenario. Since there's no
linguistic evidence of a primary split into Indo-Aryan and non-Indo-
Aryan (whereafter the latter would have moved to a "secondary
homeland" to split into more branches), the only solution that
respects the structure of the IE family tree (barring the possibility
of pre-Indo-Aryan first migrating out of India and then coming back
home to the subcontinent, ...is to have several successive IE
migration waves leave India and populate Europe and parts of Asia
over the millennia.
As usual Piotr's analysis is thougtful.
Q : On an intellectual level, is this scenario technically possible ??
Regards
Ravi