Re: [tied] Re: On Non-Linguistic IE Languages

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 13490
Date: 2002-04-25

When I said that there were quite a few substate words in Old Indo-Aryan (meaning not only the Rigveda but also the later stages), one of the list members remostrated using the same numbers as proof that the influence was very weak. I'd say that if Kuiper's count is roughly accurate, the early Vedic percentage can be regarded as pretty low, not higher than the expected average for non-insular languages.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: kalyan97
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Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 8:21 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: On Non-Linguistic IE Languages

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.