Re: [tied] I IN THE PIE

Ocean-going I in the pie meandering through Mesopotamia and scattering horse bones in its wake? Is it "The Walrus" or "Finnegan's Wake"? This speech would be a great success in the Hyde Park's Speakers' Corner or at a party rally ("Why India? Because she is there!" [applause from a thousand throats]), but it just doesn't make any sense.

Piotr

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From: kalyan97

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Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:36 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Why India?

Let us assume that the 'I' in the 'PIE' speakers were ocean-going people from GKCC through the Persian Gulf, the Tigris-Euphrates valleys and up the Wahinda-Mihran-Nara-Hakra-Ghaggar-S'utudri_-Dr.s.advati-A_paya-Manus.a bodies of waters, then the startling statement made by Michael Donne provides the key linguistic argument: that the Masica's language X is indeed Vedic. Yes, Vedic as might have been spoken by the speakers of the Bharuch, Bharu Kaks.a (Maha_bha_rata) or Bhr.gu-ks.etra (Bhr.gu zone, say, GKCC). To explain what Piotr wants, how about a scenario like this? From GKCC to Mesopotamia onto Anatolia; from Mesopotamia across land through Elam; from GKCC to Mehrgarh up the River Sindhu and returning to Dholavira in the Gulf of Kutch; from Dholavira to comingle with Indo-Iranian speakers. Let the archaeologists look for the horse bone traces across this meandering. Let linguists unravel Masica's language X [I say, Munda-Vedic with some support from Kuiper] or Misra Proto-Sanskrit cousin of Hock's PIE speakers. Why India? Because she is there.