[tied] Re: On Non-Linguistic IE Languages

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:... The
Indo-Aryan languages engaged in extensive "mixing" when they entered
the Indian Sprachbund, but the level of non-IE influence was still
low in Vedic. Greek has numerous substratal loans, but it is internal
change that accounts for the distinctiveness of Greek.

What would be the basis for concluding that the level of non-IE
influence was still low in Vedic? Kuiper counts 3.8% of the R.gveda
vocabulary to be non-IE (380 words, FBJ Kuiper, Aryans in the Rgveda.
Amsterdam-Atlanta : Rodopi 1991; Foreign words in the Rgveda. IIJ 38
(1995) 261). This counts like a high level of influence.