Re: [tied] Ice Age and Proto-Indo-Aryan languages

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> > The area of Indo-Aryan languages was NOT covered with ice.
> >...continuous habitation of
> > animals and people was possible ... So, why couldn't the

languages

> > be 'autochthonous' ..
>
> No one is saying the area was uninhabited! Just that the

linguistic

> evidence shows that whatever they spoke, it wasn't PIE (nor

Sanskrit!)

>
> Peter

Which linguistic evidence ?