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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote: It does NOT refer, in normal usage,
to pre-Vedic Indic or to Proto-Indo-Aryan, or to any pre-Indo-Aryan
substrate of India, if that's what you mean.
>
> As to studying Proto-Indo-Aryan, well, it can't be studied
directly because it isn't documented. We can only draw inferences
about it on the basis of the languages that grew out of it.
Thanks.
If Prakrits is interpreted narrowly in linguistic terminology, I
will go with the terms, proto-indo-aryan, pre-Vedic indic, pre-indo-
aryan substrate, assuming the three terms mean the same thing. I am
looking for the languages of 3500 BCE in IVC region.
Have any studies been done on these, similar to the studies done for
PIE (which is also not documented)? Do they refer to any PIE or IE
influences?