From: Richard Wordingham
Date: 2003-01-04
> Anthony Appleyard wrote:-theory that I have come across, that
> > What support is there for a
> > the Indo-Europeans came fromnorthwest India? The immediate
> > scenario is that a bad droughtin northwest India caused
> > migrations, and invasion andimmigration pressure on the
> > fertile land in"P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
> > This has been widely discussed,and by far the consensus is that
> > such a scenarios does notexplain the linguistic evidence. For
> > example, there would have had tobe several waves of emigration,
> > not just one, because of linksthat Indo-Iranian has to some IE
> > languages and not others. Indianscholars link the theory, and wish
> > it to be true, but it does fly -in my opinion absurdly - against
> > the evidence. Peterarchived message serial numbers, was
>
> About what dates, or range of
> this theory discusssed?<matt62@...> wrote:
>
> --- "matt6219 <matt62@...>"
> > I have always thought that theidea of a single migration from
> > India to be absurd, and that anumber of migrations to be much more
> > likely. Why would this scenariobe a problem ?
>India was wetter than now, and
> Likely in the beginning, northwest
> could support a dense population,not only from the River Sarasvati,
> but also from rain. Asdeforestation and overgrazing
> destroyed the forests in the Indus/ Sarasvati plain, the land dried
> up, and recurrent droughts drovesuccessive waves of emigrants from
> the area, who were likely alsoencouraged to leave and get right
> by the army of the king of theremaining fertile area who got tired
> of being invaded and raided bypeople from the drought-affected
>the Origins of Civilization" by
> I have the book "Vedic Aryans and
> Navaratna S.Rajaram and DavidFrawley, ISBN 81-85990-36-0, publ.
> Voice of India.decipered the Indus valley script
>
> This book says that Natwar Jha has
> and that it turned out to beSanskrit written in a syllabary that
> largely ignored vowels. Whatsupport is there for this
>Indus Valley script started to be
> If this is correct, then when the
> used, I suspect that its languagewas likely more like PIE than
> Sanskrit, and in earlyinscriptions linguists should look
> with these features:-happened: e.g. *[kakara] instead of
> (1) Second palatalization not yet
> [cakara] = "I have made".not yet happened.
> (2) First (satem) palatalization
> (3) Laryngeals represented byconsonant signs.