Re: Misra, Bryant and Indigenous-Nationalist Conflation

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

> > Which I guess means - since we don't know WHERE the earliest

innovations

> in
> > IE happened or how they moved - that India MIGHT be the PIE

homeland, even

> if
> > Sanskrit is many innovations removed from PIE.
>
> (a) Vocabulary - includes northern trees animals and stuff, does

not include

> southern stuff.

Isn't it so that Sanskrit shares northern animals with the west,
southern ones with the east?

> (b) links with Uralic - although the situation is unclear, it is
>clear that
> were links.

Assume a late wave of emigrants of proto-IA speakers from India.
(BTW I've heard of Dravidian links with Uralic.)

> (c) The history of movement of I-I speakers down through Iran into

India,

> which can be traced in toponyms.

See (b). And how do you trace directions in toponyms?

> (d) Borrowings from Semitic (if there is no closer link) eg the

number 6.

But see

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/numbers.html

>
> No details - this stuff should be basic knowledge - but that's an

indication

> of some of the arguments that might be used.
>
> Peter

Torsten