[tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

> In a contact area of IVC, across the gulf, there are some hints

that

> a substrate language may explain Sumerian words: sanga 'priest';
> simug 'blacksmith' and tibira 'copper smith'; engar 'farmer',
> apin 'plow' and absin 'furrow; nangar 'carpenter', a:gab 'leather
> worker'; kish 'name of a city'.
>

Such a language migh show up as common loanwords in Sanskrit and
Sumerian. Which is what Paul Manansala has been trying to find. But
if the IVC language is that of a civilisation that has arrived by sea
from further, you'd find those words in languages further east. Which
Manansala has also tried to do. And if they are analysable in those
languages, we have found their source.

Torsten