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

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From: kalyan97

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

> Considering that R.gveda is neither a neolithic stone-cuttter's nor an pastoral-agriculturist's manual, I think the perecentage is not low.

 

A good proportion of them are proper names, though.

> Ain't it notable that as many as 30% of the agricultural terms in Hindi are from language X? Kuiper has also noted (cf. Zide, A. and N.H. Zide, Semantic reconstruction in proto-Munda cultural vocabulary.  Indian Linguistics 34, 1973, 1-24) that many Vedic agricultural terms are from "an unknown third language" (cf. Zide & Zide 1973: 15).

 

That's what I said. Once in India, Indo-Aryan absorbed a lot of substratal and adtsratal influence.

 

Piotr