--- In cybalist@..., x99lynx@... wrote:...What kind of scholars?
And what specifically do they > have to say about Vedic's linguistic
relation to the other IE languages? Or > are you saying that these
mainstream scholars have some other way of knowing> what language was
spoken in pre-IA India? By the way, how does Dravidian fit > in all
this? Did it have any hand in this Vedic civilization? ...>
> Here's a dangerous thought. The neolithic revolution came to India
out of > the middle east and far east and had nothing to do with IE
languages until > thousands of years later, when IE served as a
unifying trade language among > diverse Dravidian and other speakers
who had already developed advanced > bronze age cultures.
Thanks Steve Long for the bold expression of dangerous thoughts,
which is the way to shake out a discpline into new, vibrant paths.
Suppose the hieroglyphs on inscribed objects are explained as part of
the corpus of Language X, including many non-IE substrates, then the
neolithic revolution in PIE linguistics really begins.
Here are some rebus pointers which read the glyphs using
Munda/Dravidian/Vedic lexemes, many of which can be explained as
Gujarati language substrates.
Let us call the language bha_s.a_, Meluhhan, explaining the
activities of early metal-workers and traders with the middle east:
Mlecchita Vikalpa, the code of the inscribed objects
Rebus representations in inscribed objects of the civilization
Furnace and forge of blacksmiths
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/mlecchita.htm
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/desi1.pdf
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/munda/furnace1.pdf
These links are added at the neolithic site:
http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/khambat/bhrgu01.htm