Re: [tied] The Dravidian Salesman

From: vishalsagarwal
Message: 13043
Date: 2002-04-06

What do you mean by 'thick'? To my knowledge, Kuiper's list derives
about 3.8% of RV vocabulary from non IA sources. I do not think that
is all that 'thick'.

Regarding some other attempts recently, the less said the better.

Vishal
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--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The presence of thick rich substrate layers in Indo-Aryan
demonstrates that Old Indo-Aryan engulfed and absorbed a number of
other languages,